Welcome to our monthlong countdown celebrating notable drivers and cars from the Indianapolis 500!
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Majeske Collection Danny Ongais started second and finished 18th in the 1978 Indianapolis 500. |
Some cars and drivers
just sum up an era at Indianapolis and are indelibly linked. While not a legend
of the Brickyard like, say, A.J. Foyt or Rick Mears, if you went to the track
in the late 1970s to mid-1980s, you remember Danny Ongais and the black
Interscope No. 25.
Danny On the Gas was fast, fearless and spectacular (in both good and bad ways). When Tom Carnegie or John Totten piped up on the PA system that Ongais was on the track, you paused from crunching on your Sno-Cone and gave the 2 ½-mile oval your undivided attention.
In 1978, the Flying Hawaiian started second and led 71 laps before the engine blew. Ongais wound up 18th with 145 laps to his credit.
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