1988 Indianapolis 500
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
May 29, 1988
Speedway, Indiana
ABC Satellite Feed
Announcers - Paul Page, Sam Posey, and Bobby Unser
Race Results
https://www.racing-reference.info/race/1988-03/R
The 72nd running of the Indianapolis 500 was dominated throughout the Month of May by Team Penske. Rick Mears had won the pole with a four-lap average speed of 219.198 mph, during his run he broke the single-lap track record of 220.453 mph, becoming the first driver to break the 220 mph barrier in IMS history. 1985 race winner Danny Sullivan had qualified second and the four-time and defending winner of the 500, Al Unser Sr. qualified third to complete the Penske sweep of the front row.
On race day, Team Penske led 192 of the 200 laps that day, with Rick Mears capturing his third Indianapolis 500 victory ahead of Emerson Fittipaldi (who had a penalty retracted for passing Rich Vogler under yellow, violating the blend-in rule, Vogler himself went to USAC officials to say that he waived Fittipaldi by because he was 8-10 laps down at the time and did not want to impede the leaders, successfully getting the penalty retracted when the final results were posted Monday), Al Unser Sr., Michael Andretti, and Bobby Rahal rounded out the top 5.
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