500 Facts

If ever there were anything you didn’t already know about the Indy 500, this is the place where you would discover it. Want to know who the fastest and slowest qualifiers were for any given 500? Look here on the Speedway’s Historical Stats page, where the categories are well described and comprehensive, and all the facts of the matter are readily available.

Besides race summaries, records and various other milestones, the actual box scores from each race are accessible via pull-down menus, as are official results pages and grid sheets. A complete listing of all the records for both qualifying and the race illuminate the progression over time of these performance standards, and there’s another list showing the fastest race laps since 1951.