Arena: Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Location: Speedway, Indiana.

Date: May 27, 2012

Motor Racing Betting Online: Also known as Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, the Indy 500 or The 500, is an American automobile race. This race event is held annually over the Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This event is known as well as The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, is considered one of the three most significant motorsports events in the world.

The seating capacity of this place is 257000, but the infield seating raises the capacity to approx 400000 people.

Name of the Race

Early on, as the name of the event changed as often as the cars. The race took on names such as:

The International 500-Mile.

Sweepstakes Race.

The Liberty Sweepstakes.

Annual Memorial Day Race.

The fans, call it Indianapolis 500, the Indy 500, or simply The 500. In 1981 it was officially named as Indianapolis 500-Mile Race by the officials.

2011 Indy 500 Results

The 2011 Indy 500 results are in for those wondering who won the race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. This year saw a rookie nearly named the winner for the Indianapolis 500 making for a great historic moment. However, his dreams were crushed on turn four.

The Indy 500 race televised on ABC today,saw JR Hildebrand, a 23-year-old rookie looking like he was about to win it and then hit the wall on the final stretch of the race. Meanwhile, #98 Indy car driver Dan Wheldon managed to drive right past him from second place to cross the finish line first.

Earlier in today's centennial anniversary of the Indianaoplis 500 race, winner of the pole, Alex Tagliani, also hit the wall. He still showed great sportsmanship, heading over to congratulate Wheldon at victory lane, right after Dan got a kiss from his wife. Last year's winner, Dario Franchitti finished in fourth place. GoDaddy girl Danica Patrick finished in 9th place today. However, it was Wheldon who downed the milk and wore the victory wreath following the Indy race.

2010 Winner

Franchetti beat out favorites Helio Castro-Neves and Scott Dixon to take home the victory on Sunday afternoon, his second Indy 500 win of his career.

After the 200th lap, the official Indy 500 race results and winner for the 2010 edition have been announced. Franchitti now becomes the 17th guy to win Indy 500 more than once, with his second official win, the first coming in 2007. Franchitti hails from Bathgate, West Lothian Scotland but currently resides in Tennessee.

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