1982 Indianapolis 500

The 66th Indianapolis 500 was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 30, 1982. Gordon Johncock, who had previously won the rain-shortened 1973 race, was the winner. Rick Mears finished second by a margin of 0.16 seconds, the closest finish in Indy 500 history to that point.

Starting grid

Note: Following the Kevin Cogan crash on the pace lap, the cars of Cogan, Mario Andretti, Roger Mears, and Dale Whittington were eliminated. When the field was lined up for a second attempt to start the race, none of the four cars joined the field. Holes were left in the grid as those four spots were left vacant, with the first two rows conspicuously holding only two cars each, and only 29 cars took the green flag.

Row	Inside	Middle	Outside
1	Rick Mears	Kevin Cogan	A.J. Foyt
2	Mario Andretti	Gordon Johncock	Bill Whittington
3	Tom Sneva	Don Whittington	Danny Ongais
4	Pancho Carter	Chip Ganassi	Johnny Rutherford
5	Danny Sullivan	Herm Johnson	Héctor Rebaque
6	Al Unser	Bobby Rahal	Howdy Holmes
7	Roger Mears	Geoff Brabham	Dennis Firestone
8	Mike Chandler	Dale Whittington	Jim Hickman
9	Johnny Parsons	George Snider	Tony Bettenhausen
10	Jerry Sneva	Chet Fillip	Gary Bettenhausen
11	Tom Bigelow	Pete Halsmer	Josele Garza

Template:Colorbox Yellow indicates the driver was eliminated during the Cogan crash, and did not start the race

Template:Colorbox Green indicates the driver was involved in the Cogan crash, but managed to start the race

Results

Finish	Start	No	Name	Qual	Rank	Laps	Led	Status
1	5	20	Gordon Johncock	201.884	5	200	57	Running
2	1	1	Rick Mears	207.003	1	200	77	Running
3	10	3	Pancho Carter	198.950	10	199	0	Flagged
4	7	7	Tom Sneva	201.028	7	197	31	Engine
5	16	10	Al Unser	195.567	23	197	0	Flagged
6	8	91	Don Whittington	200.725	8	196	2	Flagged
7	24	42	Jim Hickman	196.217	18	189	0	Flagged
8	12	5	Johnny Rutherford	197.066	16	187	0	Engine
9	14	28	Herm Johnson	195.929	19	186	0	Flagged
10	18	30	Howdy Holmes	194.469	32	186	0	Flagged
11	17	19	Bobby Rahal	194.700	29	174	0	Engine
12	30	8	Gary Bettenhausen	195.673	22	158	0	Engine
13	15	52	Héctor Rebaque	195.684	21	150	0	Fire
14	13	53	Danny Sullivan	196.292	17	148	0	Crash T4
15	11	12	Chip Ganassi	197.705	13	147	0	Engine
16	6	94	Bill Whittington	201.658	6	121	0	Engine
17	22	68	Mike Chandler	198.042	12	104	0	Gearbox
18	31	27	Tom Bigelow	194.784	28	96	0	Engine
19	3	14	A.J. Foyt	203.332	3	95	32	Transmission
20	25	34	Johnny Parsons	195.929	20	92	0	Spin
21	26	35	George Snider	195.493	24	87	0	Engine
22	9	25	Danny Ongais	199.148	9	62	1	Crash T2
23	28	69	Jerry Sneva	195.270	26	61	0	Crash T2
24	29	39	Chet Fillip	194.879	27	60	0	Crash T2
25	32	66	Pete Halsmer	194.595	30	38	0	Transmission
26	27	16	Tony Bettenhausen, Jr.	195.429	25	37	0	Crash FS
27	21	75	Dennis Firestone	197.217	15	37	0	Rear End
28	20	21	Geoff Brabham	198.906	11	12	0	Engine
29	33	55	Josele Garza	194.500	31	1	0	Engine
30	2	4	Kevin Cogan	204.082	2	0	0	Crash FS
31	4	40	Mario Andretti	203.172	4	0	0	Crash FS
32	19	31	Roger Mears	194.154	33	0	0	Crash FS
33	23	95	Dale Whittington	197.694	14	0	0	Crash FS

Failed to Qualify

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• Bill Alsup (#2)
• Pat Bedard (#36)
• Tom Bigelow (#56, #73)
• Scott Brayton (#37)
• Phil Caliva (#38)
• Steve Chassey (#11, #64)
• Bill Engelhart (#59)
• Dick Ferguson
• Bob Frey (#64)
• Tom Frantz (#77)
• Spike Gehlhausen (#47)
• Tom Gloy (#80)
• Tom Grunnah
• Ken Hamilton (#63)
• Bob Harkey (#79)
• Hurley Haywood (#34)
• Gary Irvin (#90)
• Jerry Karl (#32)

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• Sheldon Kinser
• Steve Krisiloff (#34, #72)
• Phil Krueger (#89)
• Lee Kunzman
• Bob Lazier (#34)
• Greg Leffler (#43)
• Ray Lipper (#73)
• Al Loquasto (#86)
• John Mahler (#92)
• John Martin (#17)
• Jim McElreath (#98)
• Chip Mead (#49)
• Mike Mosley (#48)
• Teddy Pilette (#67
• Roger Rager (#72)
• Larry Rice
• Tim Richmond
• Joe Saldana (#58)

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• Rusty Schmidt (#27)
• Vern Schuppan (#18, #37, #99)
• Billy Scott (#88)
• Dick Simon (#22)
• Gordon Smiley (#35)

NOTE: The #35 Intermedics Innovator team formed an alliance with Patrick Racing; George Snider subsequently qualified the team's backup car into the race.

• Jan Sneva (#92)
• Sammy Swindell (#64)
• Bobby Unser (#55)
• Leroy Van Conett (#46)
• Dean Vetrock (#71)
• Rich Vogler
• Bill Vukovich II (#11, #18)
• Desiré Wilson (#33)

External links

• Video of the finish of the race
• Video of the start crash caused by Kevin Cogan

See also

• 1981-82 USAC Championship Car season

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