The 92nd Indianapolis 500 is scheduled to be run on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The race will begin at 1 p.m. EDT, and be televised in the United States on ESPN on ABC broadcast network, with a one-hour pre-game show at 12 noon EDT.

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been the site of many memorable events since the facility opened in 1909. Similarly, Chevrolet has a rich heritage in racing that dates to company co-founder and namesake Louis Chevrolet, a gifted engineer and talented race car driver who competed in the Indianapolis 500 four times.

When auto racing betting, whether on Nascar or Formula 1, you also need to consider the track. Some drivers do well on road courses, while others seem to do better on the super speedways or short tracks. Track and weather conditions can also influence a car's handling ability, and some teams are better at adjusting to changing track conditions than others.

Gasoline Alley

This is a nickname for the Garage Area in which the racing cars are housed at event time. It originally referred only to the one corner where the fuel depot was located, but over a period of years, it came to be applied to the entire complex. It seems to have first come into use sometime in the 1920s and possibly may have been the result of a newspaper strip cartoon of the same name which debuted in August 1919.

Pace Car
With a huge field of 40 cars having met the qualifying requirements for starting the inaugural Indianapolis 500 in 1911, track founder Carl Fisher reasoned that this might be too many for the typical standing starts then in vogue. He believed it would be safer instead to lead them around on one unscored lap at approximately 40 or 45 mph and then release them to the flagman as he pulled into the pits. Now commonplace at motor racing events throughout the United States, this is believed to have been the very first mass rolling start for any automobile race anywhere in the world and quite possibly the first use of a pace car for a major event.

The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, frequently shortened to Indianapolis 500 or Indy 500, is an American automobile race held annually over the Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing," is one of the oldest and richest motorsport events in existence, and the largest single-day sporting event worldwide in both on-grounds attendance and international audience (recent estimates placing the latter in excess of 320 million). The event lends its name to the "IndyCar" class of formula, or open-wheel, race cars that have competed in it. It has been broadcast live over radio on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network since 1952, televised live in 1949 and 1950 on then-independent, local station WFBM-TV (now WRTV), and not again until ABC Sports was permitted to broadcast the race via tape delay beginning in 1965, and eventually live flag-to-flag coverage beginning in 1986. In May 2005, the race celebrated its 60th consecutive year of uninterrupted occurrence, and in 2006, it will celebrate its 90th running.

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Scott Dixon won the 92nd Indianapolis 500 by 1.7498 seconds over Vitor Meira. Dixon sped out of the pits ahead of Vitor Meira on the final round of stops, then held off the Brazilian and hard-luck Marco Andretti to win the first 500 since the two warring open-wheel series came together under the IndyCar banner. Dixon might have started from the pole position and led a field-high 115 laps (the most since Juan Pablo Montoya's 167 in 2000), but it was anything but a clear path to his first trip to Victory Circle in "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing." There were 18 lead changes over the 200 laps and enough potential pot holes on the way to Victory Circle to swallow the Honda-powered Dallara whole.

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