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3 unusual facts about Indy


Isadore Freed

Following this Freed went to Berlin where he briefly studied piano with Josef Weiss, and then to Paris where he studied composition with Ernst Bloch, Nadia Boulanger, Louis Vierne and Vincent d'Indy.

Robert Trumble

In 2003 he was awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for reviving the work of Vincent d'Indy.

Société Nationale de Musique

In 1886, the society had a confrontational split over the issue of promoting foreign music, with the conservative Saint-Saëns facing off against Franck, Vincent d'Indy, and others.


2010 Indianapolis 500

Prior to the start of the race, Michael Andretti drove Mark Wahlberg in a custom-built, two-seat Indy car billed as the "Izod Fastest Seat in Sports".

Albert Dupuis

Noticed by the French composer and teacher Vincent d'Indy in 1897, Dupuis was invited to work with him at the Schola Cantorum in Paris.He was for aA time the coach of the choir of Saint-Eustache, but in 1900 he returned to Verviers to marry.

Andersen Racing

Hildebrand captured the team's first Indy Lights win at Kansas Speedway and finished 5th in points.

Art Ingels

In 1956, while he was a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft, a famous builder of Indy race cars during the 1950s, he assembled the first Go-Kart in history out of scrap metal and a surplus West Bend Company two-stroke cycle engine.

Autopia

The loading area featured panels with the three Indy events: the Indianapolis 500, the Brickyard 400 and the United States Grand Prix.

Bill Davis Racing

In preparation for this, the truck was renumbered #27, which Villeneuve used in his 1995 CART and Indy 500 championship season, as a tribute to his father Gilles.

Broad Ripple High School

David Letterman (1965), entertainer, comedian, philanthropist, producer of numerous network comedy series, such as 'Everybody Loves Raymond" and Indy Car team owner

Buddy Rice

After his Indy 500 win, his sponsors told him that they would buy him any car he wanted, he chose a 1949 Mercury Eight.

Chaparral Cars

Hall would wind up getting 13 wins and 2 championships in USAC and CART sanction Indy car races.

Dan DeBono

Indy ran for 18 issues with notable original covers by such alternative comics notables as Daniel Clowes, Tim Vigil, Drew Hayes, William Tucci and Jeff Smith (cartoonist).

Dave McMillan

In 1979 he placed 9th in the USAC Mini Indy Super Vee series 8th in the SCCA Formula Super Vee Championship.

Different Skies

The album established Jones as an artist in her own right, selling unusual amounts for an indy release and making her the darling of Tokyo radio.

Dipash Chauhan

Dipash is a British born Indian, aka Dips/Indy he started racing Formula 2 sidecars, with Douglas Wright, son of sidecar racer Eddy Wright in 2005.

École César Franck

The students of Vincent d'Indy, dispossessed from the Schola, founded the Caesar Franck School, that opened its doors on January 7, 1935 under the direction of Louis de Serres, assisted by Guy de Lioncourt and Marcel Labey.

Les élèves de Vincent d’Indy, dépossédés de la Schola, fondèrent l’École César Franck qui ouvrit ses portes le 7 janvier 1935 sous la direction de Louis de Serres, assisté de Guy de Lioncourt et de Marcel Labey.

Emerson Indy 250

The first running was a CART series race held on Saturday May 24, 1997, the day before the rival Indy Racing League's Indianapolis 500.

Formula racing

However, with the introduction of road courses in 2005 and a boost in prize money in 2006, drivers like Marco Andretti and Phil Giebler were attracted to compete in the Indy Lights championships part-time, expanding the field to twenty or more cars in every cars in 2007.

Fred Lorenzen

He came back in 1970, driving a Dodge Daytona prepared by Ray Fox in the World 600(now the Coca-Cola 600), but dropped out while leading on lap 252 of 400 due to engine issues, running in a few more events that year, including substituting for LeeRoy Yarbrough in the Junior Johnson #98 Ford Torino Talladega in that year's Southern 500, as Yarbrough had a prior Indy car commitment.

Grand Prix of Montreal

This mirrored the name change of the Toronto Champ Car race from the Molson Indy Toronto to the Molson Grand Prix of Toronto after its sale by Molson.

Guy de Lioncourt

On 2 July 1912, at Boffres (Ardèche), he married Claire de Pampelonne, niece of Vincent d'Indy.

Heslar Naval Armory

On August 20, 2007, Rear Admiral Gerald R. Beaman, Commander Strike Force Training Pacific, toured NOSC Indianapolis with Commanding Officer CDR J.T. Garry and staff prior to speaking at the opening ceremony of Indy Navy Week 2007.

Indianapolis 500: The Simulation

Indy 500's theme music was produced by Rob Hubbard, who at the time was new to Electronic Arts as a music director.

Indy Lights

Indy Lights is a developmental automobile racing series sanctioned by IndyCar, formerly known as Firestone Indy Lights for sponsorship reasons.

Indy Men's Magazine

Among contributors were such notables as novelist Michael Kun, Esquire magazine writer Tom Chiarella, fiction writers Dan Barden, David Gerrold and William F. Nolan, novelist Michael Kun, Indy car driver Arie Luyendyk and "teletherapist" Dr. Will Miller.

Indy Week

On Sept. 27, 2012, the Independent Weekly was purchased by ZM INDY, Inc., whose owners, Mark Zusman and Richard Meeker, also own Willamette Week.

Jade at Brickell Bay

The building has become the home of many celebrities, including Mexican actress Patricia Manterola, Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya, stylist Samy, Mexican singer Luis Miguel, Indy car driver Milka Duno and baseball player Iván Rodríguez.

James Howard Pollak, Jr.

One of his fraternity brothers at Alpha Epsilon Pi, told him about a bicycle race called the Little 500 that took after the world famous Indianapolis 500 Indy race.

John Crosthwaite

Soon after the Indy 500 race in 1963 Crosthwaite was approached by and moved to work at Holman Moody, the official race contractor for Ford.

Johnny Rutherford

Rutherford, whom has been invited to The White House on behalf of Indy on multiple occasions, is considered a popular ambassador and spokesman for the sport of Indy car racing.

Johnny Unser

In 1997 he made his first start in the Indy 500 starting in the 35th position after league and speedway owner Tony George added his and Lyn St. James' car to the field because slower cars than theirs were guaranteed starting positions because of prior races.

Kengo Mashimo

2007 has also seen Mashimo start an interpromotional rivalry with BJW heavyweight Daisuke Sekimoto, the two fighting on nearly every Indy Summit show, culmulating in a BJW Tag Team title match with Mashimo teaming with DDT star HARASHIMA in a 30 minute draw against champions Sekimoto and Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX's Yoshihito Sasaki.

Lotus 38

It was an evolution of the previous Lotus 29 and Lotus 34 Indy designs, but this time with a full monocoque tub chassis; it was powered by the same four-cam Ford V8 fuel injected engine as used in the 34, giving out around 500 bhp.

Melanie Klein

The indy band Volcano Suns dedicated their first record "The Bright Orange Years" to Klein for her work on childhood aggression.

Prospectors Delite

Bred back to A.P Indy, Prospector's Delite produced another stakes winner, Rock Slide, who is currently standing at stud in Woodbine, Maryland, at Shamrock Farms.

Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout

Cooper did not return, but from 1963 on British built mid-engined cars from constructors like Brabham, Lotus and Lola competed regularly and in 1965 Lotus won Indy with their Type 38.

Road to Indy

In addition, all series participate in Indy 500 weekend, with the IndyCars and Indy Lights racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the lower series racing at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis on the "Night Before the 500".

Robbie Buhl

In 2007, he began a broadcasting career, joining the broadcast booth for the Indy Pro Series, now the Firestone Indy Lights Series, alongside veteran broadcaster Bob Jenkins.

SGI Indy

These graphics were a port of the Indigo²'s XZ (Elan) graphics into Indy - they offered very good non-textured 3D performance at the time, sacrificing a bit of 2D performance in return.

Star Speedway

Stars such as Chris Perley (the 2005 winner), Russ Wood, Mike Ordway and Indy veteran Bentley Warren have participated in the 200-lap race.

Starbase Indy

The first Starbase Indy was held in March 1988 in the Adam’s Mark Hotel and the main guest star was Michael Dorn, who portrayed Worf in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The College Hill Independent

The College Hill Independent (commonly referred to as The Indy) is a weekly college newspaper published by students of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, the two colleges in the College Hill neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island.

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

The theatre opened on April 2, 1913, with a gala concert featuring five of France's most renowned composers conducting their own works: Claude Debussy (Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune), Paul Dukas (L'apprenti sorcier), Gabriel Fauré (La naissance de Vénus), Vincent d'Indy (Le camp from Wallenstein), and Camille Saint-Saëns (Phaeton and excerpts from his choral work La lyre et la harpe).

U.S. 500

While the Indianapolis 500 had continued to be sanctioned by the United States Auto Club (USAC) since the formation of CART in 1979, CART teams and drivers represented the vast majority of the Indy field, and USAC had taken steps to ensure that the technical specifications for Indy did not preclude CART teams from participating.

Waltham Symphony Orchestra

The orchestra had its inaugural concert on May 10, 2008, at the Kennedy Middle School Auditorium in Waltham, with a program featuring works by Mozart ("Così fan tutte Overture"), Daniel-Lesur ("Nocturne for Oboe and orchestra"), D'Indy ("Fantaisie on French popular Themes"), Ravel ("Mother Goose Suite") and Brahms ("Symphony No 3 in F Major, Op. 90").

William F. Milliken, Jr.

He drove cars such as Type 35 and 54 Bugattis and an ex-Indy Four Wheel Drive (FWD) Miller at Watkins Glen, Pikes Peak, Sebring and many others across North America for 15 years.


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