brickyard 400 8/4/02

BRICKYARD 400

Event: The 9th Brickyard 400.

Distance: 400 miles; 160 laps around the 2 1/2-mile, asphalt-on-brick Indianapolis Motor Speedway track.

Cars: 3,500 pounds; use carburetion instead of fuel-injection found on stock models of passenger cars; tubular frames, with safety modifications.

Start: 1:30 p.m. CDT.

Defending champion: Jeff Gordon

Purse: 2001 race paid a record $6.75 million, including $428,452 to winner Jeff Gordon (Record payoff $1.64 million to Gordon in 1998).

Crowd: Speedway never discloses attendance but admits to at least 275,000 reserved seats in permanent stands, which are sold out.

Television: NBC