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PAGE 4S THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR MONDAY. MAY 27. 15001 1 E3ovj They Finished OTfiffiffiQ Start, Fmh Drim (No.) Up Rtwn out (Unofficial finoh) fop 10 ,1 MM J- 'V v'Vi. 1 1 5 8 1 Danny Sullivan (5) 200 Running 4 2 Mano Andretti (3) 200 Running 163 Roberto Guerrero (9) 200 Running 74 Al Unser Sr. (11) 199 Running 30 Johnny Rutherford (21) 199 Running 20 8 Arie Luyendyk (61) 199 Running 26 7 Johnny Parsons (76) 197 Running 15 8 Michael Andretti (99) 196 Running 22 9 Ed Pimm (98) 194 Running 1910 Howdy Holmes (33) 193 Running 3211 Kevin Cogan (18) 191 Running 3112 Derek Daly (29) 189 Running 513 Emerson Fittipaldi (40) 188 Fuel line 1214 Bill Whittington (12) 183 Crash 2415 John Paul Jr.

(43) 164 Crash 2716 Jim Crawford (34) 142 Electrical 1717 Danny Ongais (25) 141 Engine 2318 Raul Boesel (23) 134 Radiator 919 Geoff Brabham (7) 129 Engine 1320 Tom Sneva (2) 123 Crash 1021 Rick Mears (1) 122 Linkage 2522 Chip Ganassi (84) 121 Fuel line 3323 Rich Vogler (60) 119 Crash 624 Don Whittington (20) 97 Engine 1125 Al Unser Jr. (30) 91 Engine 1426 Dick Simon (22) 86 Oil pressure 327 Bobby Rahal (10) 84 Waste gate 2128 A.J. Foyt (14) 62 Front wing 2929 T. Bettenhausen (97) 31 Bearing 230 Scott Brayton (37) 19 Engine 1831 Josele Garza (55) 15 No power 2832 George Snider (44) 13 Engine 133 Pancho Carter (6) 6 Engine rr xi4 74 STAFF PHOTO D. TODD MOORS' Car owner Roger Penske (right) and Danny Sullivan's pit crew celebrate the driver's victory in the 1985 Indianapolis 500-Mile Race.

"'OWL The Leaders Sullivan 300 Miles (120 Laps) Driver Car No. 1 Fittipaldi (40) 2 Sullivan (5) 3 Ma. Andretti (3) 4 Sneva (2) 5 Rutherford (21) 6 Unser Sr. (11) 7 Guerrero (9) 8 Brabham (7) 9 Mears (1) 10 Boesel (23) 50 Miles (20 Laps) Driver Car No. 1 Ma.

Andretti (3) 2 Rahal (10) 3 Unser Sr. (11) 4 Sullivan (5) 5 Fittipaldi (40) 6 Mears (1) 7 Unser Jr. (30) 8 D. Whittington (20) 9 Sneva (2) 10 Guerrero (9) rHl I K. ERE 9Sfgl 350 Miles (140 Laps) Driver Car No.

1 Sullivan (5) 2 Ma. Andretti (3) 3 Guerrero (9) 4 Fittipaldi (40) 5 Unser Sr. (11) 6 Rutherford (21) 7 Luyendyk (61) 8 Ongais (25) 9 Parsons (76) 10 Mi. Andretti (99) 100 Miles (40 Laps) Driver Car No. 1 Ma.

Andretti (3) 2 Rahal (10) 3 Fittipaldi (40) 4 Unser Jr. (30) 5 D. Whittington (20) 6 Guerrero (9) 7 Brabham (7) 8 Sullivan (5) 9 Mears (1) 10 Rutherford (21) Continued from Page IS Miller-American team and by his parents, Dan and Peggy Sullivan, who were having a difficult time comprehending their son's achievement. After all, there had been a time when they might have wondered if their son would achieve anything. After one undistinguished year at the University of Kentucky, Danny had dropped out of college.

A short time later, he and a friend journeyed to New York City for a weekend. "I ended up staying for 2 years," Sullivan recalled. During that time, he drove a cab, waited tables, raised chickens and tried to grow grass the legal kind. "I wasn't thinking about my future in New York," said Sullivan. "I was just bumming around, having a good time from day to day, enjoying myself." Then, one day, a family friend.

Dr. Frank Falkner, arrived in New York, an emissary of his parents, who were hoping for greater things from their son. Falkner had helped introduce Jack Brabham's rear-engine Cooper Climax to the Speedway in the early '60s and still has many connections in Indy-car racing, including one Roger Penske. "If you ask my family and friends, they might say I knew I wanted to be a race driver when I was a kid, but I never really knew much about racing, or followed, or went to races, until Frank Falkner tried to get me back on right track," said Sullivan. "I was bumming around, doing odd jobs here and there, and Frank thought that wasn't the way for me to end up.

So he made a deal he'd send me to a driving school if I'd go back to a university. I haven't made it back yet and he's going to call that bet in one of these days and you'll see me in college." In the interim, however, Sullivan went to racing's school of hard knocks overseas, learning to drive in the lower classes of European racing. He graduated to Formula One and the Tyrrell team but after one season, returned to the. United States to try the Indy-car circuit. And last season, after wins at the Pocono 500, Sanair (Montreal) and Cleveland, he caught Penske's eye.

--1 "Danny and I had been friends for a long time and Frank Falkner, Danny's mentor, always communicated with me about what Danny was doing," Penske said Sunday. "And as the season rolled out last year, 1 started to realize this was the guy we had to beat. Fortunately for me, Danny was available at the end of the season and based on his performance, and riot on our friendship, he got the quarterback's job." The move paid dividends in double. With Penske's No. 1 driver.

Rick Mears, recovering from crash injuries, Sullivan became the team's primary test driver. "He spent from the middle of November on testing for us every single week somewhere and never complained," Penske said. "He's run three or four thousand test miles for us and today I guess he got the fruit of all his work." Those fruits will be green, as in dollars, when the Speedway announces its payoff tonight The winner's share of the purse could amount to a half-million dollars. Not bad for an ex-cabbie. "Did you ever spin a cab?" Sullivan was asked.

"Yeah," he replied, a bit sheepishly. "Once, in Central Park, playing around with another cab. We were racin'." The only thing Sullivan couldn't remember was if that other hack was an Italian. 3-Danny Sullivan 3-Roberto Guerrero TP- Unser Sr. 5-John Rutherford I6-Arie Luyendyk 7-Johnny Parsons -8-Michael Andretti 9-Ed Pimm 10-Howdy Holmes Mi -2-Mario Andretti HI i iA 1 Is 400 Miles (160 Laps) Driver Car No.

1 Sullivan (5) 2 Fittipaldi (40) 3 Ma. Andretti (3) 4 Guerrero (9) 5 Rutherford (21) 6 Unser Sr. (11) 7 Pimm (98) 8 Luyendyk (61) 9 Mi. Andretti (99) 10 Parsons (76) 150 Miles (60 Laps) Driver Car No. 1 Ma.

Andretti (3) 2 Sneva (2) 3 Fittipaldi (40) 4 Unser Jr. (30) 5 D. Whittington (20) 6 Mears (1) 7 Sullivan (5) 8 Guerrero (9) 9 Brabham (9) 10 Rutherford (21) fcS rst fc 4 STAFF PHOTO RICK MYERS Danny Sullivan takes the checkered flag 200 Miles (80 Laps) Driver Car No. 1 Ma. Andretti (3) 2 Fittipaldi (40) 3 Unser Jr.

(30) 4 Sneva (2) 5 D. Whittington (20) 6 Sullivan (5) 7 Rutherford (21) 8 Unser Sr. (11) 9 Guerrero (9) 10 Brabham (7) 450 Miles (180 Laps) Driver Car No. 1 Sullivan (5) 2 Ma. Andretti (3) 3 Guerrero (9) 4 Fittipaldi (40) 5 Unser Sr.

(11) 6 Rutherford (21) 7 Luyendyk (61) 8 Parsons (76) 9 Mi. Andretti (99) 10 Pimm (98) 500 Miles (200 Laps) Driver Car No. 1 Sullivan (5) 2 Ma. Andretti (3) 3 Guerrero (9) 4 Unser Sr. (11) 5 Rutherford (21) 6 Luyendyk (61) 7 Parsons (76) 8 Mi.

Andretti (99) 9 Pimm (98) 10 Holmes (33) 250 Miles (100 Laps) Driver A Car No. 1 Ma. Andretti (3) 2 Fittipaldi (40) 3 Sneva (2) 4 Sullivan (5) 5 Rutherford (21) 6 Unser Sr. (11) 7 Guerrero (9) 8 Brabham (7) 9 Mears (1) 10 Luyendyk (61) Time: 3:16.06. Average speed: 152.982 mph.

Lao leaders: 1-14. Rahal: 15. Bravton: 1648. Mario Andretti; 49-50, Fittipaldi; 51-57, Sullivan; 58- 73, Mario Andretti; 74, Fittipaldi; 75-104, Mario Andretti; 105-109, Fittipaldi; 110-119, Mario Andretti; 120-121, Fittipaldi; 122-139, Mario Andretti; 140-200, Sullivan. Yellow lights: Laps 14-18, Brayton, blown en-ame: laps 21-29.

Bravton. dumDina oil: laDS 73-78, Daly, tow-in; laps 120-122, Sullivan, spin; laps 123-134, Sneva, Vogler, crash; laps 146-149, Ongais, tow-in; laps 170-175, John Paul crash; laps 192- 196, Bill Whittington, crasn. Lap prize money: Andretti, Sullivan, Rahal, Fittipaldi, Brayton, $450. i STAFF PHOTO D. TODD MOORE Winner Danny Sullivan gets new tires in 15-second pit stop after his spin in lap 120.

Roger Penske, just above the Miller logo, gives the OK sign. 1 i..