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Little 500 founder Howdy Wilcox, Jr. and his family at the first race in 1951. Wilcox, then executive director of the Indiana University Student Foundation, modeled the race after the Indianapolis 500, which his father won in 1919. IU Archives

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Little 500 founder Howdy Wilcox, Jr. and his family at the first race in 1951. Wilcox, then executive director of the Indiana University Student Foundation, modeled the race after the Indianapolis 500, which his father won in 1919.