Tom Sneva is a retired American race car driver, the winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 1983. He primarily raced in Indy cars, and was named to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2005. Sneva holds the distinction of being the first man to circulate the Indianapolis Motor ...Speedway at more than 200 miles per hour. They called him ‘The Gas Man,’ and his qualifying attempts at IMS in the late 1970s into the ‘80s were always spellbinding. Show more