While generally held in September (season finale), this year’s INDYCAR Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey was moved to June. With...
by Royce Rumsey Keep pushing! After leading 196 of the 200 laps of the 1912 Indianapolis 500, Ralph DePalma’s Mercedes...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has announced that it will not be running its annual Historic Racing Exhibition Laps, in conjunction with this year’s Indy 500. IMS officials stated: Update on the 2021 Indianapolis Historic Racing Exhibition: Due to the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, state and local guidelines, and the need...
Racer, writer, broadcaster, entrepreneur and motivational speaker Lyn St. James is the Honoree of the 26th annual Amelia Island Concours...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is pleased to announce a new exhibit opening August 1 dedicated to one of most colorful...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is scheduled to reopen to the public at 9 a.m. (ET) Tuesday, July 7, following a three-and-a-half month closure due to the COVID-19 national emergency. Museum officials have kept in regular contact with Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials throughout the crisis, and in order to comply...
Pat Flaherty A.J. Foyt John Watson Zora Arkus-Duntov 1 Zora Arkus-Duntov, who will go on to become the “Father of...
Influential Indianapolis Motor Speedway fixture, historian and historic driver Patrick Kennedy passed away on April 12th, at the age of...
1981 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year Bob Lazier has passed away at the age of 81, due to complications from COVID-19. Lazier started racing with the SCCA, in the 1970s, and after success in Formula B, Formula Super Vee and the “Mini-Indy” series, Lazier made his Indy 500 debut,...
Indianapolis 500, May 30, 1963 Jim Clark in his Lotus-Ford. He qualified on the second row and finished second overall,...
I recently beheld a holy icon of auto racing called the Bothwell Peugeot. Why it is called that I will...
Five Team Penske Indianapolis 500-winning cars will form the core of the Silver Anniversary Amelia’s “Penske Indy Winners” class. 1972 McLaren M16B/Offenhauser – Mark Donohue’s record setter and Team Penske’s first of 18 “500” winners 1988 Penske PC-17/Chevrolet – Rick Mears’ Indy pole car and “500” winner 1994 Penske PC-23...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has announced that renowned engine builder Louis “Sonny” Meyer Jr. died Saturday, Nov. 7, in Crawfordsville,...
The Board of Directors of Hulman & Company announced today that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired...
Indianapolis, Indiana. Indianapolis hosts America’s most important racing event, the Indianapolis 500, aka Indy 500. The 1920 Duesenberg 183 Grand Prix raced by a American, Jimmy Murphy was the first American race car to win the top racing events – The Indy 500 in 1922, 1924 and the French Grand...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is teaming up with Spotfund – an all-new and innovative fundraising platform that supports only...
Heveningham provides the perfect setting for a concours event with its tiered, Kim Wilkie-designed, sweeping lawn terraces to display beautiful...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced that three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Johnny Rutherford has entered the second round of its 2019 Vintage Race of Champions (VROC) Charity Pro-Am championship series at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Brickyard Invitational has a new date for 2019, August 1-4. “All of...
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Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from the 2019 Indianapolis 500 Legends Day and Historic Pre-Race Laps, May 25–26. The Indianapolis Motor...
This week, Maserati celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Maserati 8CTF’s fantastic win at the Indianapolis 500. On Sunday May 30, 1939, the Maserati 8CTF, driven by 27-year-old Warren Wilbur Shaw, crossed the line first after a race lasting 4 hours and 20 minutes at an average speed of over...
On Wednesday, May 22, Cummins unveiled all five, fully-restored Cummins-powered racecars in front of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum. To...
Since the first race in 1911, the Indianapolis 500 has always been considered America’s greatest race, attracting huge crowds and...
Two beloved figures in Indianapolis Motor Speedway history have been elected to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame: two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon, and longtime motorsports radio and television personality and IMS Public Address announcer Bob Jenkins. The two were chosen from a ballot of 14 nominees by...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum will honor 1969 Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti and his illustrious racing career with the...
The roar of vintage Indianapolis 500 champions will permeate the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 23-25 as the IMS Museum...
In January 1957, a big mustached man wrestled with a mighty Studebaker racing car on a narrow, twisty and bumpy hillclimb at Krugersdorp in South Africa. What was a racing car that had been purpose built for the 1932 Indianapolis 500 doing there, 25 years later and 12,000 miles from...
The 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 justifiably received more hype, pomp and circumstance than any of the 99 editions that...
Mecum Auctions has announced that it will be selling the 1957 Kurtis Kraft KK500G “Bardahl Special” at its August 23–25...
The sport of automobile racing is arguably about 130-years old, assuming you subscribe to the notion that the first organized race, using gasoline-powered internal combustion engines, occurred in France in 1887. But looking back across this 130-year history, there are a number of significant events that stand out from the...
