GM Chevrolet and Indy 500 Celebrates 100 Years

GM Chevrolet and Indy 500 Celebrates 100 Years Rear Side View

America’s most famous race, the 500 miles from Indianapolis, is celebrating its 100th Birthday this year and that makes Chevrolet, whose name is on the “Brickyard” from the beginning bound. Arthur Chevrolet competing in the inaugural Indy 500 on 30th May 1911, a few months before the founding of the company whose name on 3 November of that year with. Today, Chevrolet and Indy 500 are still on with the Chevrolet Camaro SS Convertible 22nd Indy 500 race on 29 Upcoming vote as a joint celebration of its 100th anniversary.

“Before it was a Chevrolet Louis Chevrolet and his brothers made a name for himself behind the wheel of a racing car,” said Jim Campbell, GM vice president of Automotive and Performance Motorsports. “Chevrolet was after a car company, was Louis and his brothers to race in Indy, forging one of the most talked about relations in the automobile racing.

Over the years it was the Chevrolet brothers many times at the Indy 500, but only one of them to win the race. In 1920, Gaston Chevrolet won the wheel of a Monroe-Frontenac, becoming the first driver to the end won the race on a set of tires. Unfortunately, he died the same year, California in a race.

After the end of the 2nd World War II began, step Chevrolet car for the race, the first in the 1948 convertible. Including the event this year, ran the Chevrolet Indy 500 22 times, more than any other brand. The Corvette has ten times followed by the Camaro, with seven performances.

“The fact that some of the history of the most memorable cars that ran in the 500 miles of Indianapolis, as many checkered flags won Chevrolet includes performance,” said Campbell. ”

The 2011 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible Indianapolis 500 Pace Car is a tribute to the 1969 Camaro pace, with two cars, the distribution of colors. There will also be sold as special edition in a limited edition of 500 units.