The 1993 Indianapolis 500 is famous for many things.
Four F1 world champions made the starting grid, including the reigning one in Nigel Mansell who had decamped to CART following Alain Prost's arrival at Williams for '93. With essentially no room at the Frank Williams inn, Mansell took his flat cap, Red #5 and headed stateside.
He was joined on the grid at IMS by 1972 and 1974 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi, royalty in the form of '78 champion Mario Andretti and fellow rookie, three-time champion, and former Williams enemy, Nelson Piquet.
Of the quartet, Fittipaldi had drank the milk in 1989 for Penske, and remarkably, nearly 25 years after his 1969 success, Andretti was still trying to add a second.
Andretti had qualified second, Mansell eighth, Fittipaldi ninth, and Piquet 13th. The field also winners in the form of Al Unser with his four 500 wins, Al Unser Jr, Arie Luyendyk and Danny Sullivan.
After the 200 tours of the Brickyard, it would be Fittipaldi who would win a second 500, but it would prove controversial.
Fittipaldi drinks the orange juice
The first 182 laps were largely typical Indy, with Mansell within 18 laps of a stunning upset win in his first-ever Oval race, leading from Fittipaldi and Luyendyk.
Lyn St James stalled on pit-road, with organisers throwing the yellow flags. Whether it was a caution remains up for debate.
Two laps later, Mansell led the field to green, but inexperienced at oval restarts, fluffed his lines, being swallowed up by Fittipaldi and Luyendyk.
They finished in that order, with Fittipaldi drinking the orange juice for the second time.
That's right, instead of milk, Emmo took a swig of a bottle of orange juice in victory lane, to promote his orange farm back in Brazil.
To be fair, he did actually take a mouthful of milk before the orange juice, but that is often overlooked as the 'snub' became the story. Some fans at IMS have still not forgiven him to this day.
Mansell had to console him with third place, but did go onto win that season's CART title. For the couple of weeks before Prost won his fourth F1 title, Mansell held both the F1 world drivers' title and the US open-wheel championship.
No other driver has ever achieved that.
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