Rick Mears has won this May auto race a record 3 times from the pole position
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ESPN Classic - Mears used high pass to beat Andretti - ESPN.com  May 26, 1991 - Rick Mears streaked into Indy 500 history as he joined A.J. Foyt and Al Unser Sr. as the only drivers to win the race four times. Mears, 39, got into the Indy record book after outracing Michael Andretti in a brilliant duel. ... The first to win from the pole position three times -- and in three different decades -- Mears...
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Rick Mears - Respected By His Peers - Racing, Driver, Champion ...  "Rick Mears has fans, but not passionate followers. He has style, but not charisma," wrote Bruce Lowitt of the St. Petersburg Times in May of 1989. ... Mears won the most Indy car victories of any driver in the 1980s and was named Driver ... In 1991 he won the pole position at the Indianapolis 500 for a record-setting sixth time...
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Rick Mears - Wikipedia  Rick Ravon Mears is a retired American race car driver. He is one of three men to be four-time winners of the Indianapolis 500 (1979, 1984, 1988, 1991), and the current record-holder for pole positions in the race with ... Mears scored his second Indy win that May but suffered severe leg injuries later in the year in a crash at...
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Mears, Rick - Dictionary definition of Mears, Rick | Encyclopedia.com ...  Definition of Mears, Rick  Our online dictionary has Mears, Rick information from Notable ... Rick Mears dominated Indy car racing in the 1980s. ... He won the coveted pole position forty times and he drove more miles during that decade ... Most impressively Mears won a record number of pole positions in 500-mile races,...
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List of Indianapolis 500 pole-sitters - Wikipedia  Rick Mears (6). Most recent, Canada James Hinchcliffe. Winners of the Pole position for the Indianapolis 500. The pole position is the first starting ... Rick Mears holds the all-time record with six career pole positions. Ten drivers ... The Indianapolis 500 has been won from the pole position a total of twenty times (out of 100).
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Jayski's NASCAR Silly Season Site - Sprint Cup Series All-Time ...  Brothers with the most Sprint Cup wins [each won at least ... races seven times, the most by any brother duo in NASCAR history: ... UPDATE 3 - ties an all time record from 1956: there was one other year in which 17 drivers won races. ... In the ten races run, all ten winners came from a top 10...
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ESPN Classic - Classic Indy 500 moments  In realizing his boyhood dream, Ribbs, the son of an amateur race driver from ... 1987: Al Unser Sr., driving in a year-old car he had to beg to drive, wins his ... Rick Mears streaks into Indy 500 history when he wins the event for the fourth time, ... Mears, 39, gets into the Indy record book after outracing Michael Andretti in a...
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Back to the Car Description - Motorsports Market  Indianapolis 500 Champions Al Unser Sr., Bobby Unser, Rick Mears, Gordon ... Neil Bonnett, Bobby Allison, David Pearson, Darrell Waltrip and many more.
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The Top 100 IndyCar Drivers of All Time - #10 to #1 - racermetrics.com  For one thing he has the largest difference between his win total and his TNL total ... gained more wins through off-track passes than any driver in IndyCar history .... in 1996 when he won more races than anyone else despite having Goodyear ..... Foyt has 67 wins to Andretti's 52, he has 7 championships to Andretti's 4, and...
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Indy 500: Memory Lane With the Drivers Who Won - The New York ...  May 28, 2016 ... One of three four-time winners of the Indianapolis 500, Foyt, 81, made 35 ... Andretti, who was born in Italy and moved to the United States in 1955, saw .... his fellow Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi and won the Indy 500 the first time he raced it. ... That famous camera angle, on the exit of Turn 2, with the flowers.
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Gehrig's Streak Ended at Briggs Stadium Seventy Years Ago  May 7, 2009 ... On May 2, 1939, Lou Gehrig took himself out of the Yankee lineup, thus ending his 2,130 consecutive games record. It would be another 56 years before the Iron Horse's record was broken by Cal Ripken Jr. ... of the visitor's dugout at Briggs Stadium after pulling himself out of the line up on May 2, 1939.
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Johnny Unser - Revolvy  Johnny Unser (born October 22, 1958) is a former race car driver. ... He joined the Indy Racing League in its inaugural 1996 season but had a ... INDY33, 24th, 56 ... Indianapolis 500 results Year Car Start Qual Rank Finish Laps Led Retired 1958 92 24 .... Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Sunday, May 26, 1996.
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Calcavecchia sets record with nine straight birdies - PGA Tour  Jul 25, 2009 ... Calcavecchia broke the record set by Bob Goalby in his 1961 St. ... Open), Dewey Arnette (1987 Buick Open), Edward Fryatt (2000 Doral-Ryder Open), ... It wouldn't surprise me if some guy whips out 10 birdies in a row ... These guys are good." ... 8, Jerry Kelly, TPC Summerlin, 2003 Las Vegas Invitational.
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Jimmie Johnson - Wikipedia  Jimmie Kenneth Johnson (born September 17, 1975) is an American stock car racing driver and a six-time champion in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. He currently drives the No. 48 Chevrolet SS for Hendrick Motorsports in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. .... for the Sprint Cup, he recorded 14 wins, eight more than any other driver.
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Stock car racing - Wikipedia  StockCar Racing is a sport, in Britain, USA, New Zeland, Holland, and The Netherlands and has been around for many decades. Stock car racing. Three-wide multiple row back.JPG. Sprint Cup Series drivers race at Daytona International Speedway in 2015 ... In October 2007 American race car driver Russ Wicks set a speed record for...
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Articles about Al Unser - tribunedigital-sunsentinel  Al Unser Jr. passed Darrell Waltrip on the last turn of the last lap Saturday to win the .... drivers in the top two spots in the starting grid -- Rick Mears and Al Unser.
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Indianapolis 500 - Wikipedia  The Indianapolis 500 is an automobile race held annually at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in ... Rick Mears holds the record for most career pole positions with six. .... a hazard during the race, as he was the only driver in the race driving without a ..... became the first car owner to win the Daytona and Indianapolis 500s in the...
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AL UNSER, PATIENT AND LUCKY, TAKES A 4TH INDIANAPOLIS 500  LEAD: Al Unser Sr., a man without a car for the Indianapolis 500 until 11 days ago, today ... Published: May 25, 1987 ... Unser's 25-year-old son, Al Jr., finished fourth and his brother, Bobby, described the victory for a national television audience. .... His winning average speed was 162.175 m.p.h. He is the last driver to have...
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Pig-N-Ford Races bring serious pig-wrangling competition to the ...  Aug 4, 2015 ... Each contestant grabs a pig from a holding pen, slings the swine ... The races, now in their 91st year, have earned the county fair plenty of ... Marty Walker, a UPS driver from Sherwood who has won the races a record 11 times. ... Tillamook County Model T Pig and Ford Association, which ... When: Aug.
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Father-son combos mark in Indy history | WFNI ESPN 93.5 / 1070 ...  Jun 19, 2015 ... He won his final attempt at the 500 back in 1981 before retiring from ... His fourth win, in 1987, made him the oldest driver to ever win at Indy at...
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Make it 3 for No. 24: Gordon passes Earnhardt late to win 3rd time at ...  Feb 21, 2005 ... 24. Gordon passes Earnhardt late to win 3rd time at Daytona 500 ... The last person Jeff Gordon expected to see ahead of him in a furious ... As it turned out, Earnhardt found just enough speed to scare Gordon, not to beat him. ... under a green flag, and Gordon hung on to beat Busch by two car lengths.