Kentucky’s Jeanetta Holder, 84, has been gifting Indy 500 winners hand-made quilts for four decades. Last May’s winner, Alexander Rossi, received one. Mario Andretti of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, the 1969 winner, received his 40 years ago after claiming the 1978 Formula 1 title. The Unsers, Al Sr. and Jr. and Bobby, winners of a fabulous nine Indy’s, have a collection in Albuquerque. Roger Penske, the transportation-industry giant and race promoter, has some, as does Arie Luyendyk, the Phoenix-area resident who won in 1990 and 1997. And four-timer A.J. Foyt has some as does another quadruple winner, Rick Mears. The family of Jim Rathmann, the 1960 winner, received one, as did Parnelli Jones, who took the checkered flag in 1963. “She has always been a close family friend for 50 years, including babysitting my children,” says Bobby Unser, who won three times. “Thanks, Jeanetta, for being part of what makes the Indianapolis 500 and open wheel racing great!”

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