Significance of Milk and race winners?

Question

What is the significance of race winners drinking milk...where and why was this tradition started?

Answer 1

It's an Indy 500 thing.

Answer 2

History states that it all begins with the nipple!!! The suckling of the knee apples.............because race winners are prone to finish. They began their meal from the bossom of their mother and did not finish until they were full, just like in the race they finish when they cross that line. The thought of the nip waiting for them across the finish line is very motivating. They drink milk right before the race to have the vision of the breast. This has been going on for hundred's of years.

Answer 3

The only race the winner drinks milk is the Indianapolis 500.

From indy500.com...

Winner's Drink of Milk

Three-time "500" winner Louis Meyer regularly drank buttermilk on a hot day, as his mother had told him it would refresh him, and he consumed some in Victory Lane as a matter of course after earning his third "500" victory in 1936. A dairy industry executive happened to see a photograph of this in the following day's newspaper and, believing it to be regular milk, vowed to make sure this would be repeated in the coming years. Milk was part of the Victory Lane ceremony between 1937 and 1941 and then again in 1946, the first year after World War II, but disappeared between 1947 and 1955. The tradition was revived in 1956 and continues to this day.