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The No. 1 DHL Indy car team's pit crew will be wearing red pants leading up to and during the legendary Indianapolis 500 race.

They raced 1-2-3 in line, trading the lead a whopping 15 times over the final, frantic 75 laps.

Driver Graham Rahal now drives for a team co-owned by his father, 1985 Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Rahal, left.

Profiles of the 33 drivers in Sunday's Indianapolis 500, in starting order with car number in parentheses, age, hometown, engine, race team, and biographical information : 1. Ed Carpenter, 32, Indianapolis; Chevrolet, Ed Carpenter Racing.

Every child grows up dreaming of being a race car driver, or a rock star... four-time IZOD IndyCar Series championship team Andretti Autosport has both.

Paul Menard has signed a multi-year extension with Richard Childress Racing to drive the No.

RCR announced the home improvement store signed a multi-year partnership renewal to back the No.

Ireland's Peter Dempsey beat Firestone Indy Lights points leader Carlos Munoz and three other drivers down the front straightaway Friday to win the closest oval race in Indianapolis Motor Speedway history by 0.0026 seconds over Colombia's Gabby Chaves.

Denny Hamlin roared to the pole position for Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 , blistering the Charlotte Motor Speedway track record with an astounding 195.624 mph lap in Thursday night qualifying.

As is tradition, the 2013 Indianapolis 500 will be run on the Sunday before Memorial Day and all racing fans will have their eyes on Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Joliet hospitals and paramedic crews are preparing for Electric Daisy Carnival much the same as they would for a race weekend.

Marco Andretti has had the same bad luck in the Indianapolis 500 as the rest of his family.

Chris Owens/IMS - Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner A.J. Foyt would like to see what three-time winners Helio Castroneves and Dario Franchitti would do in some of the equipment that Foyt raced back in the day.

Billed as the "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing," the Indianapolis 500 is one of the biggest events on the sports calendar, and the starting lineup for this year's race features some heavy hitters.

The ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards' annual visit to Chicagoland Speedway will once again be called the Ansell ActivArmrA 150.

IndyCar will open the door to increased technical innovation in its cars and continue its longstanding effort to improve safety in open-wheel racing, Hulman & Co.

James Hinchcliffe of Canada driver of the Andretti Autosport Dallara Chevrolet drives during the IZOD IndyCar series Sao Paulo Indy 300 at Anhembi Sambadrome on May 5, 2013 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray will lead the field and a hungry pack of Chevy powered Indy Cars to the green flag of the Indy 500, serving as the pace car for the 97th running of the Memorial Day weekend classic.

Panther Racing co-owner Jim Harbaugh will drive the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray pace car for this weekend's 97th Running of the Indianapolis 500, officials from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced today.

Roger Griffith's love for the smell of burning rubber goes way back. As a former drag racer, he always dreamed of driving or riding in NASCAR.