The annual (since 1911) 500-mi. Indianapolis Speedway Race can be a dull show. In recent years, it has been dullwith the winner leading, and comfortably, somewhere after the 300-mile mark. But last week, right up to the final 20 miles, some 175.000 spectators got their money's worth in thrills.
Almost from the start the race was a spectacular, bitter duel between Troy Ruttman, driving an Agajanian Special, and Bill Vukovich, in a Fuel Injection Engine Special. Ruttman took the lead on the twelfth lap of the 2½-mi. brick and tar speedway. Vukovich, out after the $100-a-lap prize money, grabbed it back again...
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