European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 29, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 23 cart s super teams can be had by Bob Keim Indianapolis up officials at the Indiana Polis 500 ought to Check out Arie Luyendyk s fuel cell. The rules say a car is supposed to run on methanol but Luyendyk s machine sunday had to be powered by Krypton Ite. What other Way is there to explain How Luyendyk was Able to handily beat indy car racing s three super teams in the biggest race of the year even though Luyendyk started the race on the out Side of the front Row even though he had a 1990 Lola Chassis and a Chevrolet engine and even though he was a respected Driver few gave him much Chance of winning. Luyendyk said after the race that he should have placed a bet on himself in Las vegas figuring he could have gotten a pretty Good Price and he probably was right. But overlooking the dutchman turned out to be a mistake. His drive sunday was As capable As any turned in at Indianapolis motor Speedway his team did the Best Job of preparing the car and Luyendyk held up under commentary the Strain of running 500 Miles. Going into the race the seven favourites All belonged to us racing gales Draco or  hey had the Money. They had the Drivers. They had the equipment. When Maurice Kraines and Rick galls merged operations after last season it looked like the three super learns were going to dominate the sport especially alter cart was re organized and the new March All Carbon fiber Chassis outlawed. Luyendyk s win sunday was not necessarily a Victory for the Little Guy for owner Doug Shierson has a big Money sponsorship Deal a 1990 Lola Chassis and a Chevrolet engine. All three of those ingredients had to be there for any team to win the race. What he does t have is the benefits that come from a High Money Multi car operation in terms of testing and development. You learn a lot More when there arc two or three cars going around a track and that pays top Rookie Cheever Aims to win next 500 off big Down the Road. Shierson and Luyendyk were in line for a huge pay Day monday when they stood to collect the Winner s share of the purse expected to be More than $1 Mil lion and the endorsements and exposure that come from winning the Indianapolis 500 Are overwhelming. Money should t be a problem any More. Luyendyk s win sunday was not the first Surprise in Auto racing this year. Der Rick Cope s Victory in the Daytona 500 in february was an even bigger shocker. If Luyendyk thought he could have made a killing betting on himself anyone who could have gotten a Bookie to take a copy Luyendyk Perfecta in the coun try s two biggest races would be on easy Street. Money will always be important in Auto racing and any team hoping to be competitive has to have the top dollars to buy the Best equipment and hire the bes Drivers. If nothing else Luyendyk s win pointed out that the super teams arc vulnerable that they still can be beaten. That fact alone will make the rest of the indy car season a lot More interesting. By Hank Lowenkron Indianapolis a now that he has finished an Indianapolis 500, even if not As High As he thought Eddie Cheever is ready to try and win one. The 32-year-old Cheever was dropped from seventh to eighth in official stand Ings posted monday but that was still the Best of the three rookies in sunday s race and he did it in a year old car too. Canadian Scott Goodyear was 10th and Dean Hall the Only newcomer not running at the end was 16th after a Bro Ken front suspension on his 166th Lap. I promised myself i was not going to be scraped off the Wall and i achieved that said Cheever who also was the fastest Rookie qualifier at 217.926 Mph. I wanted to finish and i did that also. I wanted to finish in the top 10 we did and i ran in front of All the 89  Cheever s finish was the Best by an indy Rookie since italian Fabrizio bar Bazza s third place showing led three newcomers in the top 10 in 1987. I Felt i could race Here and do Well even though i did t have the Oval experience said Cheever who crashed after just two laps in his indy car debut in Miami in 1986 and did t drive in an other one again until this year. We had a Good month and now Well go on with what we be Learned. This is a new team. We be made great strides. We be got Chevrolet v-8 Power which is the dominant engine of the circuit. Hopefully Well be Able to come Back next year with a new car and go for Victory. Cheever lost a spot in the final stand Ings because the unofficial finish had credited him with 194 laps instead of193. We had him eighth and then moved him to seventh because we thought there had been an error chief Steward Tom Binford said. Further review showed our error was that we thought there had been an  i m very pleased said Cheever who was born in Phoenix but has lived and raced in Europe most of his life. At the beginning of the year i was t looking Forward to the ovals. I was terrorized Over driving Here. As the month went on i Felt More comfortable. Now i really am having fun on an Oval. I be still got plenty of learning ahead but i m very confident in my team and am optimistic about the  Cheever had no complaint about his car but he had problems with his tires. We had a problem with the car s bal Ance he said. It was changing All the time. One set of tires would be Good the next one would be bad. I just could t find a consistency Between one set and  he did t fault Goodyear which manufactures All the tires used in the race. We failed to test the tires before the race to make sure which ones were right and which ones were not. We just messed up big time Cheever said. The problem was ours not Goodyear  adjusting to indy was unlike any experience Cheever encountered since he began racing karts in Europe at age 13. I never went to a track where i spent indy Rookie of the year Eddie Cheever houses himself after finishing sunday s race. This much time before a race was before the Public so much and spent so much time being interviewed. I d heard about indy for a Long time. It s More than a race. It s a unique experience. It was extremely difficult for me to adjust to All of the spectacle. I think twill be easier next  the other rookies also called the race a learning experience. I went through school today the 30 year old Goodyear said after the race. The Start was pretty smooth pretty clean. There was a lot of turbulence and 1 think we picked up a Little bit on  it was an education for the 32-year-Oldhall, too. I made a mistake coming into the pits. I was going too fast locked up the brakes and ran into one of the fresh tires hit the Wall. It was my fault. It s a lesson i la remember the next  indy from Page 21 stable cars credited for Safe 500 i pounced seventh and eighth place finishers an audit by . Auto club scor ing showed Rookie Eddie Cheever Hadron one less Lap than originally counted moving him behind Scott Brayton in the standings. A record purse of More than $6 million x.w61 to the announced at monday night s Victory banquet with Luyendyk hop a Jan 1989 Winner Emerson Fittipaldi