Louis Meyer

Early in his career, Meyer helped prepare the Miller driven by Frank Elliott in 1926, destroking the engine to bring it within the 91+1⁄2 cu in (1,499 cc) displacement limit permitted by the rules.

[1] In 1928, Phil Shafer's intended Miller entry went up for sale, and Alden Sampson bought the car for Meyer.

[1] Meyer passed the rookie test, qualified thirteenth, and took the lead on Lap 181; he won by a margin of 25 seconds, at an average speed of 99.5 mph (160.1 km/h).

Meyer started the tradition of drinking milk (buttermilk at the time) in victory lane that year, when he drank a glass.

[citation needed] Meyer came close to winning a (then-record) fourth 500 in 1939, in the Bowes Seal Fast Special Miller.

Earlier in the day she was in Pennsylvania picking up a wrecked car and after that went to see her brother-in-law Eddie Meyer race in Reading.

She found out about her husband's victory after the track announcer in Reading asked the crowd to give a big hand to Eddie Meyer, the brother of the Indianapolis 500 winner.

Meyer's winning car from the 1928 Indianapolis 500
Meyer in victory lane after winning the 1928 Indianapolis 500
Meyer with riding mechanic Lawson Harris on the cover of El Gráfico magazine, 1933
Meyer's name and likeness among the winners memorialized upon the Borg-Warner Trophy - Meyer was the inaugural awardee of the trophy in 1936