This yr’s version of the Indianapolis 500 might be distinctive if, for instance, a Spaniard (or a Mexican) wins the race (Palou and O’Ward are severe contenders)… however what is definite is that it’s going to have a Tempo Automobile by no means seen within the 106 earlier editions.
It’s the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Convertible, an unprecedented mixture within the historical past of the mannequin.
The long-lasting American sports activities automobile has performed this function on 20 events and is powered by a naturally aspirated 5.5-litre LT6 V-8 engine that delivers a file 670 horsepower, a file within the Corvette‘s wealthy historical past.
The 2023 500 Mile race automobile includes a Crimson Mist Metallic physique tone and a two-tone black and gray inside, whereas the alloy wheels are completed in bronze and have a spider-like design.
Its look is accomplished by ornamental race logos and light-up badges for its on-track duties.
The Tempo Automobile is the equal of the protection automobile in Formula 1 and its fundamental job is to information the grid to the inexperienced flag on Sunday, Could 28, and it’ll additionally regroup the pack after every yellow flag, when there’s an accident through the race (one thing that historically occurs a number of instances in every version).
For the winner… as per custom
The 33 drivers within the race will see it up shut at these moments… however just one will get to drive it because the Tempo Automobile robotically turns into a part of the winner’s storage as one of many many traditions of the Indianapolis 500.
And be careful, it isn’t simply any prize, the Z06 Convertible is on sale in the USA for greater than 100,000 {dollars}.
That is a considerable quantity contemplating that the juiciest prize cheque at stake within the Indy 500 is the 100,000 {dollars} pocketed by the pole sitter and the sum of money that the winners often get is between 200,000 and 300,000 {dollars}, relying on many elements, not together with the worth of the automobile.
Por primera vez un Corvette Z06 Convertible liderar la parrilla en la Indy 500.
A lady on the wheel
The Tempo Automobile driver for the 107th version of the Indianapolis 500 shall be an illustrious American feminine driver: Sarah Fisher.
The American is the lady with essentially the most participations in Indianapolis (9, with a seventeenth greatest end result) and one of the crucial profitable within the historical past of IndyCar (with a second place as the very best results of her profession) and Fisher will repeat the function she performed final yr on the wheel of a Z06 coupe model.
This yr there will even be feminine illustration within the American race: Katherine Legge (RLLR) shall be within the subject after attaining the thirtieth place on the beginning grid for the race, avoiding Bump Day (the place her different three group mates Graham Rahal, Jack Harvey and Christian Lundgaard had been knocked out).
