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| Sports |
| Indianapolis is the home of the Indianapolis Indians,
a minor league baseball team in the International League, the
Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association, the Indiana
Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association, and the
Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. In addition,
the headquarters of the NCAA is in Indianapolis. The city has
been referred to as "The Amateur Sports Capital of the
World". |
| Indianapolis also is the home of the Champ Car
World Series, formerly known as CART, an auto racing series
that competes worldwide. |
| In 1987 Indianapolis played host to the Pan American
Games. |
| The Indianapolis Motor Speedway |
| The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway,
is the site of the Indianapolis 500, an open-wheel automobile
race held each Memorial Day weekend on the 2.5 mile (4 km) oval
track. The track is often referred to as "the Brickyard,"
as it was paved with 3.2 million bricks shortly after its initial
construction in 1909. Today the track is paved in asphalt, yet
there remains a yard of bricks at the start/finish line. |
| The first 500-Mile Race (804.7 km), held in 1911,
was won by driver Ray Harroun driving a Marmon Wasp. (Marmon,
incidentally, was an Indianapolis manufacturer.) The "500"
is currently part of the Indy Racing League series. |
| The Speedway also hosts the NASCAR Brickyard 400
stock car race (currently scheduled in August) and the Formula
1 U.S. Grand Prix (recently moved from September to June). |
| As measured by the number of fans in attendance
(estimated at close to 300,000), the Indianapolis 500 and the
Brickyard 400 are the two largest annual single-day sporting
events in the world. |
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