Danny Sullivan - Indy Car Career

Indy Car Career

For 1984, Sullivan returned to America, where he competed in the PPG Indycar series winning the 1985 Indianapolis 500. The "spin and win" footage of his red and white Miller American spinning through 360 degrees down the south short chute (between turns one and two) at Indy after passing Mario Andretti for the lead in the race's 120th lap has been played on countless motorsports programs. Recovering from the spin undamaged except for lightly flat-spotted tires, Sullivan went into the pits for new rubber, then returned to the track and passed Mario a second time twenty laps later to go on for the win. Danny would set the pace at Indy again in 1988, leading 91 of the first 101 laps, until a wing adjuster broke and his car drifted out and smacked the turn 1 wall. Nevertheless, he won the Michgan 500 later that summer, and went on to win the CART Indycar series title for Roger Penske that year.

In 1986, Sullivan was a guest star on the television show Miami Vice ("Florence Italy") playing a race car driver accused of murdering a prostitute. The episode featured some short outdoor scenes in the pit lanes of the Miami Grand Prix. Sullivan had limited dialogue in the episode; His longest piece of dialogue was in a police station interrogation scene.

In 1992, Rare released Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat for Nintendo Entertainment System.