Auto Race - Drivers Will Start Engines For Indy 500 - For The 100th Time

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(CNN)In Indianapolis, Indiana, on Sunday, over a speedway this bears this city's name, 33 drivers will crank their applications and also click their own accelerators to be able to introduction your 100th operating regarding America's best-known auto race .

The start moment to the Indianapolis 500 will be signed to get noon, following five hours connected with pre-game festivities Sunday morning. They begin with the standard a few a.m. explosion of any government bomb that will start the actual course and, later, include things like TV celebrity Florence Henderson's annual a different regarding "God Bless America."

For drivers, the following year's battle features a new rule that will increase the risk of crashes along at the iconic race, reported by some. Under the fresh rule, Drivers will need to fall into line from a side-by-side place during restarts.

This ranges in the previous when motors lined in place single-file for restarts. The fresh double-file formation and can even result in accidents as being the bunched in place cars and trucks jockey for position, some say.

"It's likely to be interesting, your brand new rules, your double-file restart," an old Indianapolis five hundred winner Helio Castroneves instructed reporters final week. "There's a great deal of things taking place which could change this vibrant of the battle in the past. So the idea will surely often be helpful to help see."

The first Indy 500 winner, Ray Harroun, claimed that checkered flag about May 30, 1911, inside a automobile that will averaged just less than seventy five a long way per hour. Today's autos can hit rates above 3 times while fast.

CNN's Lateef Mungin contributed to this report.