• Again, I was scared to death. I had zero grip, and I was lifting at the start/finish line going into one. It's embarrassing.

    Marco Andretti, Kansas 2007

  • Now it's obvious we were too conservative, we should have just gone for it

    Eric Bachelart, Indy 500 Bump Day 2009

  • It's just great, pure racing.

    Sebastien Bourdais on IndyCar, June 2015

  • I bet you'd love to drive one, you just wouldn't want to crash one!

    Charlie Kimball to Dale Jr. via Twitter, Pocono, August 23rd 2015

  • I promise you this: it isn't the last you've seen of me at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. My last time there will not be a day when I'm walking out with my tail between my legs.

    Paul Tracy, Indy Bump Day 2010

  • If you run around in the back with the squirrels, you're bound to get your nuts cracked.

    PJ Chesson

  • I get one more opportunity to head into the defining racing venue of my career with a single, achievable goal: Win.

    Danica Patrick on her final Indy 500, The Players' Tribune, May 15th 2018

  • I never would've had my opportunity to race at Indy if it weren't for Tony George and the IRL.

    Tony Stewart, May 2007

  • And here comes Max Crappis into the pits!

    Paul Page, Michigan '99

  • The last time this flag was on the front row of the Indy500, I wasn’t born. Makes me proud.

    Rinus Veekay on the Dutch flag, Twitter.com, May 25th 2021

  • That was for the team.

    Tony Kanaan, Fontana 2005

  • Off to heat yoga with @PitFitTraining. Gonna be sweating like a rapist.

    Tomas Scheckter showing his class on Twitter, April 6th 2011

  • Fernando Alonso on the difference between an IndyCar and an F1 car, May 3rd 2017

  • Let's wait and watch.

    Tom Carnegie

  • I just kept focused, focused, focused, all day long, getting every corner perfect.

    Helio Castroneves, St Pete's 2007

  • Winning is always a great feeling, but winning at your home track, a place that you grew up at and a place that helped you fall in love with the sport of IndyCar racing... this is priceless.

    Graham Rahal on winning at Mid-Ohio, Instagram, August 3rd 2015

  • She's just feeling the pressure of not winning races.

    Dan Wheldon on Danica Patrick, Milwaukee 2007

  • I've never been so happy to be in last place.

    Ryan Hunter Reay, Indy 500 Bump Day 2009

  • When you go home and you're slow, there's nothing you can do. But when you go home under these conditions it's kind of tough.

    Alex Tagliani, Indy 500 Bump Day 2009

  • I drove the best race of my whole career!

    Rinus VeeKay on finishing 5th at the IMS Road Course, July 4th 2020

  • I'm throwing this one out to Dan. This is his hometown, this is his car.

    James Hinchcliffe after his first career victory, St. Petersburg, March 24th 2013

  • The Indy 500 was the defining stage of my career.

    Mario Andretti

  • I plan to be here hopefully until I'm into my 40s, and to accomplish something like Scott has done.

    Alexander Rossi on building an IndyCar legacy, Mobil1TheGrid.com, December 10th 2018

  • "Many people always ask me why I sign off 'Until we meet again.' Because goodbye is so final. Goodbye, Dan Wheldon."

    Marty Reid, Las Vegas, October 16th 2011

  • Every podium tastes like glory and every victory more so.

    Alex Palou on the calibre of competition in IndyCar, September 5th 2023, via Marca.com

  • Then again my favorite films of all time are Fast and the Furious 1 through 8 or however many of them there are.

    Conor Daly on underglow. Via Twitter, July 16th 2020

  • We'll see how it unfolds, and we're going to have to give each other respect and the space on the track.

    Danica Patrick on Dan Wheldon, June 2007

  • It looks so easy when you watch it on TV, but it's not.

    Franck Perera on racing ovals, Homestead 2008

  • Second place is nothing.

    Marco Andretti, Indy 2006

  • It was a very good test in terms of outright speed, but I did destroy a car the first day.

    Dan Wheldon, Homestead test 2007

  • I'd have finished my career very disappointed had I not won the Indy 500. It's an amazing feeling and an amazing event.

    Will Power on winning the 102nd Indy 500, racer.com, August 7th 2018

  • Finishing in the Top-10 here was because of nutrition.

    A Sarah Fisher malapropism, Texas 2007

  • Back then there were 50-75 cars just trying to make the field. And they were the best drivers in the world. I remember thinking; I can’t believe this. I can't believe I got a spot.

    A.J. Foyt on qualifying for his first Indianapolis 500 mile race

  • Beautiful chaos!

    David Malukas on the racing at Texas Motor Speedway, April 2nd 2023

  • Whoever has got the big balls is going to go fast!

    Helio Castroneves

  • I wish I could get my deadbeat family to participate.

    Kurt St. Angelo on the IndyCarFanZone fantasy league, Twitter, September 14th 2022

  • So it was a bad result but good day. Led laps, good restarts, passed people, worked with the car, but finished crap! movin on!!

    Danica Patrick after Iowa 2009, via Twitter

  • I'm tired of being nice about it. The fact is, grip created by aerodynamic downforce is our enemy... At the moment, the downforce is so great that it masks the handling and hurts the racing

    Rick Mears on what's wrong with IndyCar, Motorsport.com, October 28th 2015

  • Maybe he should start thinking about driving and stop thinking about dancing because that was a stupid move.

    Tomas Scheckter on Helio Castroneves, Detroit 2007

  • With photos, sometimes people get old. Not me, but some people do.

    Helio Castroneves, June 2009

  • This place isn't easy. It's not supposed to be easy. This place starts the 33 fastest, best-prepared cars. Obviously, I missed.

    Paul Diatlovitch, Indy Bump Day 2007

  • I can't control what size I am and how I'm built. All I know is the NBA doesn't lower the hoop for short guys.

    Danica Patrick, June 2005

  • We'll be fine. I'll take them to Six Flags tomorrow and we'll all be fine.

    Tony Kanaan on Marco & Danica, June 2009 at Texas Motor Speedway

  • When I saw he was slowing down, I have to say it was a relief. I thought, 'Now we can finally unleash the beast inside and go for the win.'

    Simon Pagenaud on Will Power's misfortune at Sonoma, ESPN.com, September 18th 2016

  • I arrived in Turn 1 and I was convinced that I was doing flat out, but the foot was not flat - it had its own life, it was not connected to my brain at that moment.

    Fernando Alonso on Turn 1 commitment at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, May 3rd 2017

  • It's the biggest race in the world. It's not supposed to be easy.

    Marcus Ericsson on The Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, May 2023

  • That's a good way to lose a championship.

    Tony Kanaan, Kansas 2007

  • Brad Pitt got a super license before me. Tough.

    Colton Herta on Brad Pitt joining the F1 grid to film a movie, Twitter, May 4th 2023

  • We'd love to see Buddy Rice in a car and in the Indy 500, but as best we can tell, no driver has ever qualified for the Indy 500 from their couch.

    TrackSideOnline, May 2009

  • It's a great feeling. I wouldn't trade it for anything else.

    Sam Hornish Jr. on winning the 90th Indy 500

Driver Statistics

These statistics are calculated from data compiled by IndyCarFanZone since the first race of the 2010 IndyCar season.

Currently Active Drivers
Driver Total
Events
Points Value
Min Avg Max Min Avg Max
Scott Dixon 225 0 35.5 105 $250000 $332576 $390000
Will Power 225 0 33.3 108 $250000 $331556 $390000
Alex Palou 61 0 33.9 85 $290000 $320984 $335000
Scott McLaughlin 53 0 26.4 71 $300000 $316509 $330000
Alexander Rossi 128 0 29.1 124 $250000 $315234 $335000
Patricio O'Ward 69 0 30.8 91 $275000 $315145 $330000
Josef Newgarden 191 0 31.7 111 $250000 $314791 $335000
Marcus Ericsson 78 0 25.9 109 $270000 $314423 $325000
Colton Herta 79 0 27.2 104 $275000 $313734 $325000
Felix Rosenqvist 77 0 22.6 69 $270000 $311818 $320000
Graham Rahal 221 0 24.4 107 $250000 $311787 $340000
Romain Grosjean 49 0 19.2 48 $300000 $311439 $320500
Kyffin Simpson 3 16 16.0 16 $310000 $310000 $310000
Theo Pourchaire 1 $310000 $310000 $310000
Rinus VeeKay 60 5 21.6 60 $290000 $308167 $330000
Kyle Kirkwood 37 0 15.8 54 $295000 $307297 $320000
Christian Lundgaard 37 0 20.7 54 $295000 $306892 $315000
Linus Lundqvist 7 5 10.6 18 $300000 $305000 $310000
Nolan Siegel 1 $305000 $305000 $305000
Santino Ferrucci 58 0 20.3 65 $280000 $303621 $315000
Agustin Canapino 20 0 10.7 19 $300000 $302750 $305000
Marcus Armstrong 14 5 17.3 26 $295000 $301786 $310000
Jack Harvey 80 0 17.8 52 $250000 $300063 $315000
Sting Ray Robb 20 0 8.4 18 $295000 $299000 $300000
Tom Blomqvist 6 5 7.3 13 $295000 $295833 $300000
Christian Rasmussen 3 9 9.0 9 $295000 $295000 $295000
Pietro Fittipaldi 12 0 14.0 28 $280000 $292500 $305000
Currently Inactive Drivers
Driver Total
Races
Points Value
Min Avg Max Min Avg Max
Dario Franchitti 64 5 30.9 70 $310000 $346352 $395000
Ryan Briscoe 78 0 25.4 64 $290000 $330449 $385000
Helio Castroneves 179 0 27.1 118 $250000 $324022 $385000
Car #40 Ed Carpenter Racing 1 $320000 $320000 $320000
Car #99 Schmidt Peterson 1 $320000 $320000 $320000
Juan Pablo Montoya 57 0 32.1 102 $250000 $319649 $350000
Tony Kanaan 176 0 25.1 101 $250000 $317955 $360000
Ryan Hunter-Reay 199 0 27.0 126 $250000 $317538 $355000
Simon Pagenaud 183 0 30.1 112 $250000 $316585 $335000
Marco Andretti 179 0 23.0 103 $250000 $309958 $335000
James Hinchcliffe 155 0 24.5 95 $250000 $308065 $330000
David Malukas 34 0 16.8 42 $295000 $304706 $310000
Callum Ilott 38 0 14.1 37 $295000 $304211 $310000
Fernando Alonso 4 0 21.7 47 $300000 $303750 $315000
Dan Wheldon 19 10 23.9 50 $300000 $303684 $320000
Robert Wickens 15 8 29.4 54 $250000 $303667 $315000
Justin Wilson 83 0 22.3 67 $250000 $303494 $335000
Sebastien Bourdais 150 0 23.3 76 $250000 $303467 $325000
Ed Jones 62 0 19.1 93 $250000 $302661 $315000
Rubens Barrichello 15 10 19.4 32 $300000 $302000 $310000
Devlin DeFrancesco 34 0 11.3 28 $290000 $301765 $310000
Carlos Munoz 71 0 26.2 115 $250000 $301620 $320000
Conor Daly 103 0 18.2 69 $250000 $301602 $320000
Mikhail Aleshin 44 0 22.7 55 $285000 $301023 $315000
Benjamin Pedersen 17 0 7.6 15 $295000 $300882 $305000
Max Chilton 83 0 16.7 86 $250000 $300361 $315000
Buddy Rice 2 12 17.0 22 $300000 $300000 $300000
RC Enerson 1 0 0.0 0 $300000 $300000 $300000
Kevin Magnussen 1 7 7.0 7 $300000 $300000 $300000
Kurt Busch 2 0 40.0 80 $300000 $300000 $300000
Oriol Servia 61 0 21.9 60 $250000 $299918 $330000
Spencer Pigot 58 0 18.9 40 $250000 $299655 $335000
Jimmie Johnson 28 0 11.5 50 $290000 $299643 $315000
Takuma Sato 210 0 21.0 137 $230000 $299500 $325000
Danica Patrick 35 12 20.4 40 $250000 $298286 $340000
Ed Carpenter 104 0 22.1 92 $250000 $298173 $340000
Dalton Kellett 37 0 9.4 20 $290000 $297297 $305000
Alex Tagliani 67 0 17.9 34 $250000 $297164 $350000
Oliver Askew 12 5 20.9 64 $290000 $296667 $305000
Charlie Kimball 151 0 21.1 78 $250000 $296060 $325000
Zach Veach 44 0 18.4 48 $250000 $295682 $310000
Townsend Bell 12 0 18.8 55 $250000 $295000 $320000
Juri Vips 2 6 9.0 12 $295000 $295000 $295000
Colin Braun 2 8 8.0 8 $295000 $295000 $295000
Ryan Norman 1 10 10.0 10 $295000 $295000 $295000
Jack Hawksworth 48 0 18.1 63 $250000 $294896 $310000
RC Enerson 7 0 11.1 22 $285000 $294286 $300000
Mike Conway 48 5 21.6 92 $260000 $294167 $325000
J.R. Hildebrand 77 0 20.4 76 $240000 $294156 $320000
Sage Karam 30 0 15.6 57 $250000 $293667 $300000
Jacques Villeneuve 2 0 14.5 29 $285000 $292500 $300000
Car #18 Dale Coyne Racing 2 11 11.5 12 $285000 $292500 $300000
Luca Filippi 19 0 17.5 41 $270000 $292368 $310000
A.J. Allmendinger 7 0 13.2 37 $280000 $292143 $320000
Buddy Lazier 9 0 7.5 14 $250000 $291667 $320000
Cody Ware 3 5 8.7 11 $290000 $291667 $295000
Ben Hanley 6 0 7.5 14 $270000 $290833 $300000
Esteban Gutierrez 6 8 15.2 27 $280000 $290833 $295000
Gabby Chavez 39 0 18.7 53 $250000 $290769 $310000
Tetiana Calderon 7 5 8.3 16 $290000 $290714 $295000
Carlos Huertas 21 0 17.8 58 $250000 $290238 $310000
Christian Lundgaard 1 19 19.0 19 $290000 $290000 $290000
Paul Tracy 11 10 15.6 28 $270000 $290000 $310000
Michel Jourdain 2 10 10.0 10 $260000 $290000 $320000
Felipe Nasr 1 0 0.0 0 $290000 $290000 $290000
Tristan Vautier 27 9 17.2 45 $260000 $288519 $320000
Matt Brabham 3 0 12.3 23 $280000 $288333 $300000
Matheus Leist 34 0 15.6 34 $250000 $287500 $300000
Stefan Wilson 10 0 9.9 31 $250000 $286000 $300000
Rene Binder 5 8 12.2 17 $280000 $285000 $290000
Car #98 Barracuda Racing 1 14 14.0 14 $285000 $285000 $285000
Pippa Mann 24 0 13.1 33 $250000 $284583 $320000
James Davison 12 0 14.8 36 $250000 $282500 $300000
Sebastian Saavedra 65 0 15.5 38 $230000 $282462 $320000
Stefano Coletti 16 6 13.5 29 $250000 $282188 $295000
Jordan King 14 0 14.4 34 $250000 $281786 $300000
Kyle Kaiser 8 0 9.6 14 $250000 $280000 $300000
Alfonso Celis Jr. 2 10 11.5 13 $275000 $280000 $285000
James Jakes 64 5 15.9 62 $250000 $279922 $320000
Simona De Silvestro 75 0 15.6 60 $230000 $279020 $320000
EJ Viso 65 7 16.9 46 $260000 $278385 $320000
Zachary Claman De Melo 11 7 14.8 26 $250000 $277727 $290000
Bryan Clauson 5 0 10.3 21 $250000 $277000 $300000
Rodolfo Gonzalez 5 10 18.8 44 $265000 $277000 $290000
Raphael Matos 21 10 16.3 32 $260000 $276429 $310000
Bruno Junqueira 2 12 12.5 13 $275000 $275000 $275000
Mario Moraes 17 10 17.2 30 $270000 $274706 $290000
Tomas Scheckter 9 10 15.2 24 $260000 $273333 $285000
Vitor Meira 33 10 17.4 30 $240000 $272424 $285000
Robert Doornbos 1 $270000 $270000 $270000
Martin Plowman 5 0 11.0 19 $250000 $270000 $300000
Franck Montagny 1 8 8.0 8 $270000 $270000 $270000
Lucas Luhr 2 8 8.0 8 $270000 $270000 $270000
Katherine Legge 13 0 11.3 22 $260000 $269615 $305000
Davey Hamilton 4 10 12.0 14 $250000 $267500 $280000
Hideki Mutoh 18 12 14.6 18 $250000 $267222 $320000
Alex Lloyd 22 10 15.0 35 $250000 $261591 $280000
Wade Cunningham 4 10 15.5 26 $250000 $261250 $270000
Jay Howard 10 10 12.9 24 $230000 $260000 $300000
Jean Alesi 1 10 10.0 10 $260000 $260000 $260000
Francesco Dracone 7 7 8.9 12 $240000 $257143 $265000
Ana Beatriz 28 5 12.8 19 $240000 $256071 $320000
Giorgio Pantano 4 10 13.3 16 $250000 $253750 $265000
John Andretti 3 12 15.7 22 $240000 $253333 $270000
Roger Yasukawa 2 12 12.0 12 $250000 $250000 $250000
Ho-Pin Tung 1 10 10.0 10 $250000 $250000 $250000
Dillon Battistini 1 10 10.0 10 $250000 $250000 $250000
Sarah Fisher 7 12 13.1 15 $240000 $244286 $250000
Bertrand Baguette 17 10 14.9 26 $230000 $242353 $280000
Mario Romancini 10 12 13.6 20 $220000 $242000 $260000
Adam Carroll 2 12 13.0 14 $240000 $240000 $240000
Joao Paulo de Oliveira 1 10 10.0 10 $240000 $240000 $240000
Milka Duno 16 10 11.4 12 $220000 $231250 $240000