Indianapolis 500: Who are the 13 F1 drivers that have won the Indy 500?

Takuma Sato crosses the famous yard of bricks to win the historic Indianapolis 500 race. Indiana, 2017.

Twice a World Champion in Formula 1, Jim Clark’s sheer versatility only added to the allure of one of the greatest drivers of all time. Clark’s team stopped short launching an official protest of the result and Hill – himself surprised to have been classified first – kept the win.Mario Andretti, the 1978 World Champion, managed to fit it all into a wonderful racing life, his tally of 29 Indy 500 starts bettered only by AJ Foyt’s 35.

Behind the wheel of a Penske-run M16, Donohue cemented his place in the history of Bruce’s team by taking the first win for a McLaren at the Brickyard.Danny Sullivan spent just a single season in Formula 1, scoring points on a single occasion for Tyrrell in Monaco, but the Kentucky native enjoyed a far more productive career back home.

Having become the youngest-ever World Champion in 1972 and added another title in ’74, Emerson Fittipaldi went on to translate his F1 success to the IndyCar scene in the 1980s. Villeneuve had recovered back up to second when, preparing for a restart with around 10 laps to go, he realised the field risked catching and passing the pace car before it had returned to the pits and promptly slowed.

“I had about 15 guardian angels help me today,” he mused in Victory Lane. “I had five or six close calls, but I squeezed through all of them.”Juan Pablo Montoya was another to shine in IndyCar before switching to F1, his enormous potential confirmed after winning the 500 at the first attempt – from a starting position of P2 – in 2000.

Gambling on making it to the end as others headed for pit road, Rossi’s lead rapidly tumbled from 20 seconds at the start of the final lap to just 4.4s at the end of it as he just managed to hold on.Fernando Alonso captured the world’s imagination by breaking off from a bruising season with McLaren to race at Indy in 2017, but the two-time World Champion was upstaged by another member of F1’s class of 2005/06.

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