# Who is the greatest multiple-time Indianapolis 500 winner?

> Only a couple of dozen drivers have drunk the milk at Indianapolis more than once. Prewar pioneers, four-time legends and modern back-to-back winners all have a case.

*By YPB Team · Published October 31, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/who-is-the-greatest-multiple-time-indianapolis-500-winner*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **A. J. Foyt** — score 1000/1000
   Texan who became the first four-time Indy 500 winner, taking the race in 1961, 1964, 1967 and 1977.
2. **Rick Mears** — score 733/1000
   Penske star who won four times (1979, 1984, 1988, 1991) and holds the record of six Indy 500 poles.
3. **Juan Pablo Montoya** — score 681/1000
   Colombian who won as a rookie in 2000 and again for Penske in 2015.
4. **Bobby Unser** — score 622/1000
   Three-time winner (1968, 1975, 1981) and older brother of Al Unser in racing's most famous family.
5. **Josef Newgarden** — score 551/1000
   Penske driver who won back-to-back in 2023 and 2024, both on late passes.
6. **Dan Wheldon** — score 466/1000
   English driver who won in 2005 and again in 2011 on a last-lap pass.
7. **Hélio Castroneves** — score 466/1000
   Brazilian who won in 2001, 2002, 2009 and 2021, celebrating each one by climbing the fence.
8. **Louis Meyer** — score 363/1000
   First driver to win the Indy 500 three times (1928, 1933, 1936) and the man who started the milk tradition.
9. **Dario Franchitti** — score 363/1000
   Scottish Chip Ganassi driver who won the Indy 500 in 2007, 2010 and 2012.
10. **Bill Vukovich** — score 363/1000
   Back-to-back winner in 1953 and 1954 who dominated the early 1950s before his fatal crash in 1955.
11. **Arie Luyendyk** — score 363/1000
   Dutch driver who won in 1990 and 1997 and still holds the Speedway's qualifying lap record.
12. **Tommy Milton** — score 362/1000
   First two-time Indy 500 winner (1921, 1923), who raced despite being blind in one eye.
13. **Rodger Ward** — score 362/1000
   Two-time winner (1959, 1962) who never finished outside the top four in six straight Indy 500s.
14. **Al Unser** — score 0/1000
   Four-time winner (1970, 1971, 1978, 1987) whose last victory came in a borrowed car at age 47.
15. **Wilbur Shaw** — score 0/1000
   Three-time winner (1937, 1939, 1940) who later saved the Speedway by brokering its sale to Tony Hulman.
16. **Johnny Rutherford** — score 0/1000
   Texan 'Lone Star J.R.' who won in 1974, 1976 and 1980, the last in the Chaparral 2K.
17. **Takuma Sato** — score 0/1000
   Japan's first Indy 500 winner, victorious in 2017 and 2020.
18. **Emerson Fittipaldi** — score 0/1000
   Two-time Formula One champion who added Indy 500 wins in 1989 and 1993.
19. **Al Unser Jr.** — score 0/1000
   Son of Al Unser who won in 1992 by 0.043 seconds and again in 1994.

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