1 ABC Supply Chevrolet, becoming the team’s fourth driver attempting to qualify. The 33 drivers in the 105th Indy 500 combined to post a qualifying field average at 230.294 mph, the fastest in the storied race’s history (breaking the 229.382 mph record set in 2014). Foyt’s team announced Thursday the California native will drive the No. This May, he’ll celebrate the 60-year anniversary with a new driver, JR Hildebrand, and a throwback car. I’m on the content side of the business, and the commerce side of the business has to navigate that side of the equation. Foyt still cherishes his first Indianapolis 500 victory. “So whatever reports are out there, all I know is, we are fans of this relationship and want it to continue. We hope we can continue that partnership,” said Sam Flood, executive producer and president of production at NBC Sports. Ind圜ar’s current deal with the network is up at the end of this season, and with NBCSN shutting down at the end of the year, Sports Business Journal reported earlier this month that NBC could be walking away from the sport. In the background is the open question of whether NBC will air the Indy 500 next year. “I just think we have this amazing gift right now and we’re not going to squander it, we’re going to cherish it.” We get this unbelievable gift of calling the biggest race in the world when the championship and the series is arguably at its strongest point,” Diffey said during a conference call earlier this week. NBC will air the Indy 500 for the third straight year, called again by Leigh Diffey, the affable Australian native who has been the voice of NBC’s Ind圜ar coverage since 2013 (and who got his start at the network calling the Penn Relays on NBCSN).

Fans will be required to wear masks, and social distancing will be enforced throughout the racetrack.

Roughly 135,000 fans will be allowed into Indianapolis Motor Speedway to watch the race, about 40% of the racetrack’s capacity. In 1966 that number doubled, with three drivers hailing from Great Britain and one from. The largest crowd since the start of the coronavirus pandemic will gather Sunday to watch the Indianapolis 500. Jim Clark was only one of two non-Americans in the 1965 Indy 500.

Indianapolis 500 driver lineup