AUTO RACING: Bobby Unser, 87, Indy 500 champ in great racing family, dies

  • Bobby Unser holds three fingers aloft after winning his third Indianapolis 500 on May 24, 1981, in Indianapolis, Ind. Unser died of natural causes at his home on Sunday in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 87. (AP FILE PHOTO)
    Bobby Unser holds three fingers aloft after winning his third Indianapolis 500 on May 24, 1981, in Indianapolis, Ind. Unser died of natural causes at his home on Sunday in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 87. (AP FILE PHOTO)

    There wasn’t much Bobby Unser wouldn’t do to promote the Indianapolis 500, which is how he found himself at a show-and-tell at an Indiana elementary school a few years ago.

    He had the famed Indy 500 wi…