While Parnelli Jones retired from open-wheel racing before the Grand Prix began, he has always been a fan of the local race.
But nobody called him that — except maybe his mother.
Parnelli holding the trophy for winning the Indy 500 race in 1963. He’s sitting in front of the fireplace at his home in Rolling Hills. The photo on the wall shows Parnelli after he won the Indy500 in 1963. But because of health issues related to Parkinson’s disease and advancing age, Jones will not attend this year’s, which takes place Friday to Sunday, April 14-16. Instead, he will watch the race on TV from his longtime home in Rolling Hills, he said in a phone interview last week.
Jones had been involved with the Grand Prix since it started. Jones and his business partner, Velko “Vet” Miletich, were co-owners of Vel’s Parnelli Jones Racing team for the first Formula 5000 race in Long Beach on Sept. 28, 1975. Their team consisted of powerhouse drivers Mario Andretti and Al Unser Sr. That inaugural race was won by Brian Redman, with Andretti finishing 13th and Unser 20th.
Jones was born on Aug. 12, 1933, in Texarkana, Arkansas. But when he was 2, his family moved in the middle of the Great Depression to Torrance for a better life.
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