May 21, Jack Stuart Happy Birthday
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Daytona 400 July 2011
Official Pace Car
Official Pace Car
Shawn Dean Papa Charles
Charlie Little Dean Jack
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Gentlemen! Start your engines!
Where and when did this begin?
At a race track -- duh!
Which race track?
INDY 500 of course....
The tradition goes back to 1946, the first race after the track was closed four years for World War II and the first under the ownership of Tony Hulman.
Mary Fendrich Hulman isn't around to give the command. She died in 1998 at age 93. Mrs. Hulman had told drivers to start the race almost every year since 1977, when her husband, Tony, died.
In her place, her daughter, Mari Hulman George, carries on the tradition.
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