It is hard to consider Team Penske an underdog at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In their thirteenth year of participating in the Indianapolis 500, they had won four times and finished second four times. Still, 1987 was a year that Al Unser, Sr. became an unlikely winner of the race. ...
Al Unser Sr.
The Golden Brick at IMS
After multiple wrecks killed five on the opening weekend of auto racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the 300-mile featured Wheeler-Schebler Trophy race was stopped after 235 miles. Threatened with no more racing at the track by the American Automobile Association, the partners had to decide whether to abandon their ...