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RETRO: The year Team Penske got bumped at Indy

Page 1 of 2 It was the most dramatic and shocking Bump Day in the history of the Indianapolis 500. Twenty years ago, Team Penske lost its way at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as Al Unser Jr. (ABOVE) and Emerson Fittipaldi failed to make the starting lineup. A year after Unser triumphed and Roger Penske's cars dominated with the Mercedes pushrod engine, the wheels came off the most successful team in IMS history as it tried three different types of cars without success. Hiro Matsushita, Carlos Guerrero and Lyn. St. James were in the 79th Indy 500 but a pair of two-time winners were spectators. "I don't think I've ever gotten over it," declared Unser earlier this week during a...
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