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After the caution for Mears' engine, Rahal and Unser Jr. staged a classic duel. Unser took the lead on the restart and Rahal took it back. Unser retook the lead and Rahal regained the lead a lap later. Rahal extended his lead to nearly two seconds before he made his final pit stop under green flag
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experienced a mechanical failure and crashed straight into the third turn wall with the right side of the car. Unser suffered a broken right femur, right collarbone, and three upper right ribs. The accident occurred after only six practice laps. Later that afternoon, Unser was flown to
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Marlboro 500 by 25.459 seconds over Rahal. He earned $ 172,684. There were eight cautions for 39 laps. With an average speed of 189.727 mph, the race was the fastest 500-mile race in history at the time. The previous fastest 500-mile Indy car race was in that year's
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blew an engine and brought out the caution. This allowed Unser to pit under caution and maintain his large lead over Rahal. The race restarted with seven laps remaining, with Rahal at the tail end of the lead lap and Unser behind him.
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won the 100 mile event. Al Unser Jr., Bobby Rahal, Emerson Fittipaldi, and Danny Sullivan competed in the IROC race and then in the Michigan 500.
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