The live telecast of the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix on ABC attracted the largest live U.S. television audience ever for the iconic event, with an average of 2.3 million viewers.

It’s possible to know someone for 50 years, and yet you really didn’t know them until you read the book they just penned.I met Paul Page in 1971 when he was kind enough to loan me his Formula Ford trailer so I could take my shiny new, day-glo orange McNamara...

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In its heyday, ABC had Jim McKay's authoritative presence calling the play-by-play and reacting to Jackie Stewart's observations.Then we had the Bobby & Sam Show, where Unser would argue with Posey every 25 laps as Paul Page played traffic cop and referee. Keith Jackson, Brent Musberger and Al Michaels also...

Decades of Indy car and Indy 500 coverage by ABC/ESPN will come to an end in June after the Dual in Detroit rounds at Belle Isle. With the Verizon IndyCar Series inking an exclusive multi-year deal with NBC to have its races aired on the network and its NBCSN cable...

A tweet Saturday morning from an ABC affiliate in Macon, Georgia revealed that 2018 will be ABC's swansong covering IndyCar racing and the Indianapolis 500, but Hulman & Company president Mark Miles told RACER.com that somebody jumped the gun."It's a little premature," said Miles. "But we hope to have something...

He's tough guy, a model no longer in production and one of the most opinionated and entertaining characters to ever sit in a race car. But Bobby Unser was also one of the bravest, fastest and most aggressive racers to ever lap the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.As a three-time Indy winner...

Above: 1971 Indianapolis 500 polesitter Peter Revson's McLaren M16.Eldon Palmer, an Indianapolis-area car dealer and businessman who crashed the pace car into the photographers stand at the start of the 1971 Indianapolis 500, has died in Indianapolis after a sudden illness. He was 87.Palmer paced the Indy 500 field in...

ABC’s enhanced coverage of the 100th Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil and increased programming on NBCSN, including 10 hours of live practice telecasts, highlight the Verizon IndyCar Series television programming schedule for 2016.Total on-air programming from IndyCar’s network partners is more than 110 hours, up from 2015. It...

Enjoy this blast from the past: The ABC Sports broadcast of the 1982 Indianapolis 500.