Hemmings Daily: At the 1969 Indianapolis 500, luck proved everything and nothing

From an insider's perspective, racing's all about eliminating chance, and in our age of algorithms, computer modeling, and hypersterilized automatons [trPx] [View in Browser]( [Hemmings Auctions]( [trPx] [Hemmings Daily]( Sunday, May 22, 2022 Latest Stories Sponsored by [Year One]( [Year One]( [trPx] [Luck? What's that? It was everything and nothing at the 1969 Indianapolis 500]( [Luck? What's that? It was everything and nothing at the 1969 Indianapolis 500]( From an insider's perspective, racing's all about eliminating chance, and in our age of algorithms, computer modeling, and hypersterilized automatons ... 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