“There are a lot of stories about A.J. People tell me, ‘you should write a book,'” said longtime A.J. Foyt Racing PR specialist Anne Fornoro while accepting the 2024 Robin Miller Award at IMS in May. “I say, ‘He pays me not to write a book.'”But A.J. didn’t pay Art...

Bill Puterbaugh, who once qualified in the dark trying to make his first Indianapolis 500 and then came back to be rookie-of-the-year in 1975, passed away Monday at the age of 81 in an Indianapolis hospice. A burly sprint car driver that came from IMCA to USAC in the late...

Above: Jim McElreath, 1980. McElreath made 15 Indy 500 starts.Jim McElreath, who started his Indianapolis 500 career as rookie of the year in a roadster back in 1962 and finished it 20 years later in the ground-effects era as his own chief mechanic, passed away Thursday at the age of...