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Oscar Mayer’s iconic Wienermobile fleet will be “hot dogging” it later this week at the inaugural "Wienie 500.”
Friday afternoon marked the inaugural running of the Wienie 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, pitting six Oscar Mayer wienermobiles against each other for two laps around the fabled Brickyard. While the top speed of the wienermobiles was considerably less than The Greatest Spectacle in Racing -- they topped out at about 60 mph -- the Wienie 500 nonetheless featured thrilling racing and the sort of last lap dramatics that Sunday's 109th Indianapolis 500 could only hope to provide.