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Edits to photography department and replicas of 1963 Indy 500-winning car and 1967 #40 STP turbine[edit]

The photography department's Halon system was shown to me by Speedway and IRL/IndyCar head photographer and curator in 2008, when I went with 1963 500-winning mechanic and ex-father-in-law (the late) Jack Friedman's daughter to comb through every single contact print and some negatives with a loupe to locate 8 shots of him, which I ordered 8x10 (or 8x12) inch reprints to give to him. Also, that year, I shocked the elderly gentleman sitting on a stool near the #98 and Jimmy Clark's rear-engine Lotus when I told him it was a replica, as Jack and his wife Diane had seen the original in Rufus' car collection while they were his guests, when they were on vacation in California.

From 2001-2004 I worked for Forrest Bond's RaceFax as a photojournalist covering the IRL; and at the public driver's meeting Andy Granatelli, sitting next to Norm Macdonald with both of them addressing the gathering, told me afterwards that the car in the Speedway Museum is indeed a replica; and then I surprised him when I told him about the legacy of the #98 — We both got a chuckle out of it. Discpad (talk) 18:28, 19 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sortable table[edit]

Working on a sortable table for the HOF inductees, based loosely on the List of Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees Doctorindy (talk) 17:56, 3 February 2009 (UTC) 4[reply]

Inductee	Category	Indy 500 Win(s)	Indy 500 Pole(s)
Mario Andretti	Driver	11969	3011966, 1967, 1987
Rex Mays	Driver		4021935, 1936, 1940, 1948
A. J. Foyt	Driver	4031961, 1964, 1967, 1977	4011965, 1969, 1974, 1975
Al Unser	Driver	4021970, 1971, 1978, 1987	1970
Rick Mears	Driver	4011979, 1984, 1988, 1991	6011979, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991

Working on a special sorting criteria for each column using the "span style none" tag. The premis is this:
- When sorting by "Wins", the 4-time winners go to the top (in order of who accomplished it first..Foyt, unser, Mears)...followed by the 3-time winners...in order of accomplishments...etc. Using the sortkey tag of highest first...using a 3-digit number to keep things clear, Foyt gets 403 ("4" for the # of wins, "03" as the first/best of the 3), Unser gets 402, Mears gets 401...them Louis Meyer the first 3 time winners gets sort key 305, Shaw 304, Rose 303, JR 302, B. Unser 301...etc. So they sort top to bottom in the order we want them to.
- Same would go for poles...Mears would be 601, Mays 402, Foyt 401, etc.
I feel this complicated sortkey work is needed because sortable tables care only about the first character, and not the length of the cell nor the actual content. Doctorindy (talk) 18:47, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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