Above: 1971 Indianapolis 500 polesitter Peter Revson's McLaren M16. Eldon Palmer, an Indianapolis-area car dealer and businessman who crashed the pace car into the photographers stand at the start of the 1971 Indianapolis 500, has died in Indianapolis after a sudden illness. He was 87. Palmer paced the Indy 500 field in the orange 1971 Dodge Challenger, with Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony Hulman Jr., astronaut John Glenn and ABC broadcaster Chris Schenkel seated with him in the car. He led the field to green and peeled off onto pit road but the brakes locked, and as the field reached Turn 1, Palmer's out-of-control Dodge hit the three-tiered camera stand at the end of pit road...
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