At last count there are more than 1,200 billionaires walking the Earth. This means that regardless of wealth, there aren’t...
The revered roadsters that wrote Indianapolis 500 history during the 1950s and ’60s will be featured on Legends Day with a celebration of the Speedway’s Roadster Era, all presented by Firestone, on Saturday, May 26, the day before this year’s 102nd running of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race. The day’s activities...
Talking with famed Indianapolis chassis builder A. J. Watson, the question arises about the front, twin air inlets—the signature of...
We all know their names, and they all would tell you that we do because they won this one race....
Jim Rathmann’s career in motor racing is marked not only by a hard-fought win in the 1960 Indy 500 but also by an unusual name change with his brother Jim…or rather Dick. Jim was underage in 1943 and could not race legally. So, he and his brother exchanged identities, Jim...
Pat Flaherty’s time on racing’s grandest stage may have been all too brief, but he managed to make it count....
My first experience with a front-engine roadster was when I first went back east to race. I wound up driving...