IndyStar Racing Insider Curt Cavin will be counting down to the milestone race with notable moments, fond memories and forgotten facts.


It’s not often in sports that something will never happen again. The Indianapolis 500 has one for that category.

No one again will complete 500 miles without making a pit stop.

Yes, it’s happened, four times in fact, the most recent with a pair of drivers in the 1949 race.

Jimmy Jackson and Johnny Matz each went the distance in their cars without a stop, but that didn’t equate to race wins. They finished sixth and seventh, respectively.

Dave Evans (1931) was the first to go 500 miles without a pit stop, and he did so a the Cummins Diesel that finished 13th. The other driver to do so was Cliff Bergere in 1941. He finished fifth.