1996 Indianapolis 500
			Daily Trackside Report

DAY 2 -- SUNDAY, MAY 5

The #15 Tempero-Giuffre entry of Justin Bell was the first car pushed to pit
road this morning. Jim Guthrie was the first driver in uniform on pit road.
Mark Dismore was the first to buckle into his assigned car, the #23
Menards/Glidden/Quaker State Special. Team Menard crewman Scott Parks fired
Tony Stewart's #20 Menards/Glidden/Quaker State Special first at 8:58 a.m.
When the track opened, Michele Alboreto in the #33 Alta Spring Water/Perry
Ellis/Royal Purple entry was the first to leave pit road, followed by
Stewart and Dismore. Stewart was the first to complete a lap. Dismore was
the first to pass a phase of his driver's test at 9:23 a.m. Chief Steward
Keith Ward imposed a 185 mile-an-hour speed limit to start the day and
lifted it at 9:18 a.m. Track temperature when the Speedway opened was 69
degrees, according to Goodyear tire engineers. The track closed at 9:35 a.m.
because of rain.

Although the sports exhibition portion of the 16th annual "Save Arnold"
Barbecue for Special Olympics of Indiana was canceled, 30 drivers, former
drivers and media representatives came to Tent 3 behind the Speedway's flag
lot for an autograph session with Special Olympians and their guests. More
than $75,000 was raised this year, according to Dennis Schmidt, executive
director of Special Olympics of Indiana. Corporate sponsors included Target
Stores, Pepsi-Cola, 7-Up, Helene Curtis, Frito-Lay and Nabisco. "I think
it's wonderful these guys have taken the time to sit down and do this," said
Mari Hulman George, chairman of the Speedway, who initiated the event in
1981 and has hosted it each year. Volunteers from the Championship Auto
Racing Auxiliary helped to organize the event. Food for the barbecue was
donated by Kroger and Jug's Catering. All-time contributions to Special
Olympics of Indiana from this annual fundraiser exceed $1.3 million. Drivers
and former drivers attending were David Kudrave, Scott Harrington, Davy
Jones, Johnny Unser, Alessandro Zampedri, Ted Prappas, Tony Stewart, Randy
Tolsma, Paul Durant, Dan Drinan, Roberto Guerrero, Buzz Calkins, Stephan
Gregoire, Gordon Johncock, Jeff Wood, Tyce Carlson, Scott Sharp, Davey
Hamilton, Lyn St. James, Butch Brickell, Michele Alboreto, Joe Gosek, Justin
Bell, Eddie Cheever, Mike Mosley Jr., Johnny Parsons, Bill Rose, Lyn St.
James and Bill Puterbaugh and Dave Calabro from the Speedway public-address
staff. Zampedri said he had been looking forward to the sports exhibition,
which was scheduled to be a basketball shootout. "Last year, it was
baseball," Zampedri said with a smile. "This year it was going to be
basketball and I'm pretty good at that."

In the previous 15-year history of USAC's Rookie Orientation Program:
	--Most drivers to complete all phases is 12 in 1994.
	--Most total laps run, 316, by Marco Greco, 1994.
	--Most laps run, all participants, is 1,698 in 1993.
	--Total laps turned, in 15 previous programs, is 17,171.

Mark Dismore was the first to complete two phases of the driver's test. Buzz
Calkins and Tony Stewart each passed the first phase before the track went
yellow for rain this morning. The track closed for the day at 3:30 p.m.

9 cars were on the track today, running 138 laps. Cars on track today: #10
Brad Murphey, Hemelgarn Racing; #12 Buzz Calkins, Bradley Food Marts
Reynard; #15 Justin Bell, Tempero-Giuffre Racing; #20 Tony Stewart,
Menards/Glidden/Quaker State Special; #22 Michel Jourdain Jr., Herdez Quaker
State Canels; #23 Mark Dismore, Menards/Glidden/Quaker State Special; #25
Joe Gosek, Tempero-Giuffre Racing; #33 Michele Alboreto, Alta Spring
Water/Perry Ellis/Royal Purple; #44 Richie Hearn, Della Penna Motorsports
Ralph's Food 4 Less Fuji Film.

A total of 27 cars are now at the Speedway, 18 have passed technical
inspection and 9 are in the process. 9 drivers have been on the track to
date. There were two yellows for 5 hours, 43 minutes.  Track temperature
from Goodyear tire engineers was 69 degrees when the track opened. Winds
were out of the east at 12 miles per hour. 

                                --IMS--