102 Stats in 102 Days Until 102nd Indy 500 – Day 24, Winning Engines (March 9, 2018)

The 102nd Indianapolis 500 is 79 days away! This is the 24th day of the 102 Stats in 102 Days Until the 102nd Indy 500.

Each day from now until the Saturday before the Indianapolis 500, we’ll post a list of stats related to the race. Some are well-known statistics, while others are a little more in-depth.

Today’s list looks at the winning engines. The Marmon won the first race, in 1911.

Winning Engines in the Indianapolis 500

- Offenhauser: 27 (1935, 1937, 1941, 1947-1964, 1968, 1972-1976)

- Honda: 13 (2004-2012, 2014-2017)

- Miller: 12 (1922-1923, 1926, 1928-1934, 1936, 1938)

- Cosworth: 10 (1978-1987)

- Ford: 8 (1965-1967, 1969-1971, 1995-1996)

- Chevrolet: 8 (1988-1993, 2002, 2013)

- Oldsmobile/Aurora: 5 (1997-2001)

- Peugeot: 3 (1913, 1916, 1919)

- Duesenberg: 3 (1924-1925, 1927)

- Frontenac: 2 (1920-1921)

- Maserati: 2 (1939-1940)

- Mercedes: 2 (1915, 1994)

- Marmon: 1 (1911)

- National: 1 (1912)

- Delage: 1 (1914)

- Sparks: 1 (1946)

- Foyt: 1 (1977)

- Toyota: 1 (2003)

Notes of Interest

- A total of 18 engines have won at least one Indianapolis 500.

- Offenhauser won 27 times, twice as many as any other engine. That mark included 18 consecutive Indianapolis 500s – still more than any other engine overall – between 1947 and 1964. Mauri Rose started the streak in 1947, while A.J. Foyt was the last winner in the streak in 1964. Johnny Rutherford earned Offenhauser’s final victory, in 1976.

- Honda won its first Indianapolis 500 in 2004 with Buddy Rice and has won 13 of the last 14 races, with a nine-race winning streak between 2004 and 2012. That streak marked the third longest all-time, behind Offenhauser (18) and Cosworth (10).

- Chevrolet is the only engine other than Honda to win an Indianapolis 500 since 2004, with Tony Kanaan triumphing in 2013.

- A.J. Foyt’s four victories came with three different manufacturers: Offenhauser (1961 and 1964); Ford (1967); and Foyt (1977).

- Team Penske has won the Indianapolis 500 on 16 occasions, with seven different engines: Offenhauser (1972), Cosworth (1979, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1987), Chevrolet (1988, 1991, 1993, 2002), Mercedes (1994), Oldsmobile (2001), Honda (2006, 2009, 2015), and Toyota (2003). The victory with Mercedes is one of the marque’s two victories all-time (other win came in 1915), and the win for Toyota in 2003 is the Japanese company’s only victory in the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

- Jim Clark gave Ford its first Indianapolis 500 victory in 1965 with the first rear-engine win in race history.

- Gaston Chevrolet won the 1920 Indianapolis 500 with a Frontenac.