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Unofficial results -V-' iiiliiliwl A. Luyendyk ''X i 5 ui jr- v-'V-' ''rAVm- I p-r-i vr 11 S. Goodyear 1 1 Arie Luyendyk (5) 200 Running 2 5 Scott Goodyear (6) 2QCRunning 3 7 Jen Ward (52) 200Runnmg 4 10 Buddy Lazier (91) 200Running 5 2 Tony Stewart (2) 20a'Running 6 8 Davey Hamilton (14) 199Running 7 22 Billy Boat (11) 199Running 8 4 Robbie Buhl (3) 199Running 9 21 Robbie Graft (30) 197Running 10 29 Fermin Vetez (33) 195Running 11 16 Buzz Calkins (12) 18a'Half shaft 12 18 Mike Graff (10) 188Running 13 34 Lyn St. James (90) 186Accident 14 20 Steve Kinser (44) 185Accideot 15 28 Dennis Vitolo (54) 173Running 16 27 Marco Greco (22) 166Gearbox 17 3 Vincenzo Sospiri (8) 163Running 18 35 Johnny Unser (9) 158Oil pressure 19 26 Tyce Carlson (18) 156Accident 20 17 Jack Miller (40) 131Accident 21 33 Paul Durant(1) 111Accident 22 24 Billy Roe (50) 110Accident 23 11 Eddie Cheever (51) 84Timing chain 24 9 Eliseo Salazar (7) 70Accident 25 30 Greg Ray (97) 48Waterpump 26 6 Jim Guthrie (27) 43Engine 27 19 Roberto Guerrero (19) 25Steering gear 28 25 Mark Dismore (23) 24Accident 29 12 Robby Gordon (42) 19Fire 30 32 Claude Bourbonnais (72) 9Engine 31 13 Stephan Gregoire (77) 0Accident 32 14 Alfonso Giarfone (17) 0Accident 33 15 Kenny Brack (4) 0Accident 34 23 Sam Schmidt (16) QEngine 35 31 Alessandro Zampedri (34)00il leak Lap leaders Eventual winner in bold X. J.

Ward B. Lazier Staff Photo Mike Fender FILL 'ER UP: Arie Luyendyk didn't require much service during his pit stops: Refueling and tires were all his well-balanced car needed. B-m A' i i lie liiijtii uvm WdB mmcamwMD 1 Tony Stewart 2 Robbie Buhl 3 Arie Luyendyk 4 Buddy Lazier 5 Jeff Ward Tony Stewart Arie Luyendyk Robbie Buhl Jeff Ward Buddy Lazier J. Stewart Arie Luyendyk wins 500, to little surprise, though he did have a close call on Lap 188. 1 Tony Stewart 2 Arie Luyendyk 3 Robbie Buhl 4 Buddy Lazier 5 Vincenzo Sospiri 1 Buddy Lazier 2 Tony Stewart 3 Scott Goodyear 4 Vincenzo Sospiri 5 Davey Hamilton By Phil Richards STAFF WRITER Arte Luyendyk averaged a record 185.981 mph while winning the 1990 Indy's big winners Four Victories Rick Mears, 1979, 1984, 1988, 1991 Al Unser 1970, 1971, 1978, 1987 A.J.

Foyt, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1977 Three Victories Bobby Unser, 1968, 1975, 1981 Johnny Rutherford, 1974, 1976, 1980 Mauri Rose, 1941,1947,1948 Wilbur Shaw, 1937, 1939, 1940 Louis Meyer, 1928, 1933, 1936 Two Victories Arie Luyendyk, 1990, 1997 Al Unser 1992, 1994 Emerson Fittipaldi, 1989, 1993 Gordon Johncock, 1973, 1982 Rodger Ward, 1959,1962 Bill Vukovich, 1953, 1954 Tommy Milton, 1921, 1923 D.Hamilton gl'JjjJI Indianapolis 500, more than 40 mph faster than he ran Tuesday while winning again at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. 1 Robbie Buhl 2 Tony Stewart 3 Jeff Ward 4 Arie Luyendyk 5 Scott Goodyear To hear Luyendyks Wavephore crew tell it, that triumphant run was little more than a Sunday drive postponed to Tuesday. We didn adjust Arte car at all, said engineer Tim Wardrop. won the race, although his wife, Mieke, almost missed it. About 1:30 p.m., with the race approaching the halfway point.

Mleke left the Wavephore pit to collect son Arie and daughter Maida from a Turn 2 suite to take them to the airport for a 3:50 p.m. flight to Scottsdale to rejoin their twin brothers Luca and Alec. Friends and a nanny already had departed with the children. Other friends urged Mieke to stay, to watch her husband win. By the time she got back to the pits, Arie had fallen back to fourth.

"But 1 looked at the crew and they had no panic," marveled Mieke. "It was like they planned the whole thing." Indeed they had. From the beginning of May, they knew what they wanted and how to set up the car to do it. "It was our month," said Faul. "It was our month all the way." Right down to what happened at the airport.

Recognizing Arie had a great chance to win, Mieke's friends rescheduled her children to accompany their mother on a later flight. Then the entire party sat down In an airport bar to see the finish on television. Arie Jr. and Maida were watching laughing when Dad, the coolest head, the heaviest foot and the steadiest hand on the premises, took the traditional swig of milk in victory lane. He spilled it across both cheeks.

1 B. Boat 1 Arie Luyendyk 2 Tony Stewart 3 Buddy Lazier 4 Scott Goodyear 5 Robbie Buhl 1 Arte Luyendyk 2 Scott Goodyear 3 Tony Stewart 4 Jeff Ward 5 Buddy Lazier 1 Jeff Ward 2 Scott Goodyear 3 Tony Stewart 4 Arie Luyendyk 5 Buddy Lazier 1 Jeff Ward 2 Arie Luyendyk 3 Tony Stewart 4 Scott Goodyear 5 Buddy Lazier beat Treadway Racing teammate Scott Goodyear by 0.57 of a second, the third narrowest margin of victory in the race's 81 years. Luyendyk charged through traffic to run up front all day. He led 61 laps and on Lap 194 took the lead for the final time by going high in a bold move coming off Turn 2 to slingshot himself past Goodyear and into Turn 3. He was in third gear when the green and white flags waved simultaneously signaling a final lap restart.

He stood on the gas and never lifted, past the yellow light in Turn 1, the yellow light in Turn 2 and the yellow on the back straightaway. None of it was as dramatic as his tour of greener pastures on Lap 188. "Tony got held up by back markers (lapped cars) and he couldn't come off Turn 2 as fast as he would have liked," said Luyendyk, a native of Rosmalen, Holland, who now lives In Scottsdale, Ariz. "So I got a good run on him and I chose to go to the left and he Just put me in the grass. "That's pretty dangerous.

Since I won, I'm not going to complain about it." Luyendyk and Stewart went wheel to wheel with vigor on several occasions. They traded hisses In the press "It was good all day. We didn't do anything," echoed chief mechanic Skip Faul. "All we did was try to stay up on the lead lap and wait for it." Fact is, they left the heavy lifting to Luyendyk. "I never did drive at Indianapolis through the grass running 220 miles 1 Arie Luyendyk 2 Scott Goodyear 3 Jeff Ward 4 Buddy Lazier 5 Tony Stewart after a couple of encounters Monday, when the race was suspended by rain after 15 laps.

But Luyendyk refused to agree that Stewart was attempting to start a feud with him. "I think you're trying to start a feud with me," he told an inquiring reporter. Luyendyk and his crew owned IMS most of the month. They posted the fastest practice lap (220.297)and won the pole (218.263). It was old stuff.

Luyendyk's 1996 practice lap of 239.260 mph is the fastest in IMS history. So were his one- and four-lap qualifying speeds, 237.498 and 236.986. The difference is that this year, he R. Buhl per hour, he said, lony (btewart) kind of put me there and I had two wheels in the grass and two wheels on the track and the car was kind of going left to right and I was thinking, 'Oh, man, am I going to spin here or "I worked a lot harder today than I did in 1990. 1 drove hard all day." Luyendyk averaged 145.827 mph in his G-ForceAuroraFirestone to YJ a fa i i Time: 3 hours, 25 minutes, 43.388 seconds Average speed: 145.827 Margin of victory: 0.57 seconds Lap Prize Money: Tony Stewart, Arte Luyendyk, Jeff Ward, Robbie Buhl, Buddy Lazier, $3,1 50; Scott Goodyear, $900; Billy Boat, $450 Fastest Lap: Tony Stewart, Lap 105, 215.626 mph.

Fastest Leading Lap: Arie Luyendyk, Lap 108, 215.115 mph. iriDY 500 Continued from Page 1 "I'm happy with everything. Except that mad ness at the end." Luyendyk was speaking of Lap 200, which Tony Stewart, 64 Jeff Ward, 49 Arie Luyendyk, 61 Robbie Buhl, 16 rrirrriirrF.i'..:::::.:. turned out to be much more exciting than he had planned. After the final yellow flag on Lap 198 for debris on the track, it appeared this race would end at a reduced speed.

The yellow lights were on around the track through Lap 199 but, as the field cruised toward the starting line, starter Bryan Howard was waving white and green flags. 1-50 Tony Stewart 112-115 Buddy Lazier 51 Billy Boat 116-131 Robbie Buhl 52-62 Tony Stewart 132-140 Arie Luyendyk 63-78 Arie Luyendyk 141 Scott Goodyear 79 Tony Stewart 142-166 Jeff Ward 80-82 Buddy Lazier 167-168 Arie Luyendyk 83-109 Arie Luyendyk 169-192 Jeff Ward 110-111 Tony Stewart 193 Scott Goodyear 194-200 Arie Luyendyk Luyendyk leaped on the throttle and held off Goodyear while muttering a nationally televised profanity going down the backstretch. I thought we would cruise to the end, then I saw the green flag so I said, 'The hell with it, if they don't know what they're doing, 1 know I and I gassed It," he said. Ward was the only choice for rookie of the year after leading 49 laps in the First Plus G-ForceAur-oraGoodyear and finishing third. The former motorcycle champion owned a 13-second lead on Lap 185 but had to make a final pause for fuel.

"We had to stop or run out of fuel, but 1 can't be disappointed," said the former motorcycle champion. Lazier led seven circuits in the Delta Faucet DallaraAuroraFirestone but a dropped cylinder prevented him from challenging for consecutive victories, and he settled for fourth. "My car was wonderful but our engine laid down and I'm amazed we brought it home fourth the way it was running," Lazier said. Stewart, who started second in the Glidden G-ForceAuroraFirestone, led 64 laps but brushed the wall late and faded to fifth. Rookie Paul Durant suffered the most serious injuries of the day, a concussion and a fractured pelvis, after tangling with Billy Roe in Turn 3 on Lap 114.

Durant was reported in good condition at Methodist Hospital. Robby Gordon sustained first- and third-degree burns on his thigh after his car caught fire on Lap 20. He may miss Sunday's NASCAR race at Dover, and if he does is likely to be replaced by Wally Dallenbach Jr. The first major yellow of the day came on a Lap 22 restart. Steve Kinser rammed Eliseo Salazar, who spun and tagged the wall.

Mark Dismore slowed but was rear-ended by Roberto Guerrero. Kinser was running 10th when he clipped a lapped car and slammed the outside wall in Turn 4. Lyn St. James tried to avoid the sprint star's car but also tagged the wall. There were also three minor spins involving Mike Groff, Tyce Carlson and Jack Miller.

The first five drivers completed 200 laps and 13 of the 35 starters were running at the finish. EE 15S3IBBC Photo Kristin Enzof GREAT SCOTT: Becky Brayton (left), widow, of Indy-car driver Scott Brayton, greets Scott and Leslie Goodyear after the race. Ward. "It's a mistake that we shouldn't have made but, remember, regardless of the lights, the flag at the flagstand Is the governing factor." A crowd estimated at 100.000 returned to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after Sunday was washed out and only 15 laps were run Monday before the rains came again. But Tuesday's weather was good, Just like the racing up front as Tony Stewart, rookie Jeff Ward and defending champ Buddy Lazier mixed it up all afternoon with Team Treadway.

Even though there were only three passes on the track for the lead, the final few laps held enough action and drama to hold the fans' interest. It was crazy because I had no indication at all and neither did Scott." Goodyear lost the closest Indy 500 ever in 1992 to Al Unser Jr. This finish wound up being the third-closest after his valiant last-lap try In the Nortel G-ForceAuroraFlrestone. "It (green flag) caught me completely by surprise and I didn't know what to do," said the 35-year-old Canadian, who resides In Noblesvllle, Ind. "I would have been on the gas a lot sooner had I any Idea we were going green.

"It's the key lap of the race and It's green on the tower and yellow all the way around." Chief steward Keith Ward said the clearing of safety equipment led to the confusion. "We were desperately trying to finish the race under green and In the hustle and bustle, the gentleman hitting the lights (chief observer Claude Fisher) didn't hear me say, explained Pace Lap Kenny Brack, Affonso Giaffone, Stephan Gregoire crash in Turn 4 10 Claude Bourbonnais blown engine; Rain 16-18 Restart 20-23 Robby Gordon stops in Turn 1, car fire 24-28 Steve Kinser, Eliseo Salazar, Mark Dismore, Roberto Guerrero tangle in Turn 4 59-62 Jim Guthrie stalls on front straight 94-99 Salazar spins, hits Turn 2 wall Billy Roe-Paul Durant crash in Turn 3 13142 Jack Miller into north short chute wall, Mike Groff spins in north short chute 1 65-1 69 Tyce Carlson spins in Turn 2, contact inside wall 1 89-1 93 Steve Kinser, Lyn St. James hit wall in Turn 4 196-197 Debris on track 198-1 99 Tony Stewart brushed Turn 4 wall INDY MEMORIES George Souders took his Duesenberg from 22nd position to Victory Lane, averaging 97.545 mph to cover the 200 laps in five hours and seven minutes without the benefit of a relief driver. He beat Earl DeVore by 12 minutes. But the most memorable MOMENT OF THE RACE CAME COURTESY OF NORMAN BATTEN, WHO DROVE HIS FLAMING MlLLER AUTOMOBILE THE LENGTH OF PIT ROW BEFORE LEAPING TO SAFETY ON LAP 24.

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