Foyt muscled their Watson and Kurtis chassis (fitted with heavy Offenhauser engines and skinny bias-ply tires) around the speedway at speeds of over 150 mph. In the late fifties and early sixties - before Colin Chapman changed the Indy crowd's engineering mindset with his revolutionary rear-engined Lotus - front-engine roadsters ruled the Brickyard. It's an impressive display but it hasn't always been that way.
Purpose-built, high-downforce carbon-fiber racing machines currently navigate the 2.5-mile superspeedway at speeds averaging 230 mph with the driver's throttle foot well and truly matted for the entire lap. The Indianapolis 500 delivers a spectacle as close to real-world slot car racing as you're ever likely to see.
