8 The Borg-Warner - knobs and knockers

The Indy 500 trophy is probably the biggest of them all, at nearly 1.65m and 50kg. It is so huge that you wouldn't even fit it in the boot of your average American family saloon, which is saying something.

It might also be the only trophy in which the winners get their faces etched on to the trophy (I'm prepared to be corrected on that one).

The overall effect is ... drum roll ... uuuuuugly. It's tempting to suggest that someone should knock all the knobbly bits off with a sledgehammer, until you find out that they are the sculpted faces of the winners.

The winners get to take away a little replica, which must be an enormous relief.