The Indy 500, Flintstones-style

Memorial Day weekend again.... and time for Sunday's annual running of the Indianapolis 500, one of the world's most famous automobile races.

As such, cartoons often have their own takes/parodies of said event, including the Flintstones having done so. The best take was the original series' episode where Fred enters a car (with an actual engine) into the "Indianrockolis" 500. A few spinoffs however didn't bother showing the gang driving to the neolithic version of the Circle City (no doubt located in "the Hoosier Slate"), but instead presented Bedrock as having its own auto races. As an example, here's the cartoon posted below, one of the "Dino and the Cavemouse" segments from the early 80s "Flintstone Comedy Show" anthology series.

In this one, seems their racing cars reverted back to being foot-powered (versus being gasoline-powered as in the original series' Indy 500 episode/some of the other spinoffs' racing episodes, though the series often varies on whether their cars in general are foot-powered or gas-powered, given the occasional appearance of elephant-gas-"pump" gas stations. I assume their cars are like mopeds, thus making them *both* foot- and gas-powered...), and Wilma apparently didn't mind Fred entering an auto race unlike in the "Indianrockolis 500" episode. Perhaps Wilma helping Captain Caveman fight dangerous supervillains in Cavey's own "Flintstone Comedy Show" segment didn't give her much of a leg to stand on...

Also of note is Fred's car being named "the Flintstone Flyer"---probably a deliberate reference to the very first episode of the original series (the name Fred gives to the homemade helicopter Barney built).

Anyway, enjoy the short:


Also thrown in as a bonus: the actual "Indy 500" race itself, also from YouTube (the actual episode I linked to back on Memorial Day 2007 no longer working---per AOL's "In2TV" now being defunct):