More Ex-Indy 500 Winners Join October 12th Heroes Race

FORT WORTH, Texas September 17, 2003: the AP reported that Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Gordon Johncock and 1963 winner Parnelli Jones have been added to the lineup of former Indy drivers who will take part in a special 25-lap race before the IndyCar Series' season finale at Texas on Oct. 12.

Johncock, who won in 1973 and 1982, and Jones will join three-time Indy 500 winner Johnny Rutherford and seven other drivers in the Firestone Heroes of Indy.

The 10 drivers will race identically prepared Thunder Roadsters on the quarter-mile paved oval on the Texas Motor Speedway. The cars will resemble the roadsters that dominated Indy car racing through the 1950s and 1960s.

A.J. Foyt and Al Unser, two of the three drivers who have won the Indianapolis 500 four times, will also be involved in the event. Foyt will be the grand marshal and Unser will drive the pace car.