I sent in my ballot for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame last week, but for the first time in 10 years, I didn’t write in Jim Hurtubise, Paul Newman, Carl Haas or Bill Finley because it was a obvious that the no one in charge ever gave them...

The sporting world was agog last week, proclaiming Tiger Woods’ victory in The Master as the greatest comeback of all time. Now make no mistake, it was a remarkable recovery from all his surgeries and a story worthy of great praise, but let’s get serious. Greatest comeback of all time?...

It’s the 6th of May, 1968 and I’ve managed to flunk out of Ball State Teacher’s College in only two quarters. I squandered an opportunity my parents of the Great Depression never had, but was oblivious at the time because all I cared about was the Indianapolis 500.Practice was three...

A lot of good and bad ideas have come down the straightaway at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the past 30 years. Tony George's SAFER wall was the single best thing to ever happen to oval-track racing, and the Fast Nine helped restore some drama to qualifying since Bump Day...

Robin Miller's video series celebrating the tough guys of Indy resumes. Enjoy previous installments of the series at The RACER Channel on YouTube.Roger McCluskey was a tough guy who came barreling out of the sprint car ranks in the early '60s with Parnelli Jones, Bobby Marshman and Jim Hurtubise and...

The eve of the 99th running of the Indy 500, and there are statisticians everywhere performing last-minute scans of the record books. How many winners came from pole position (it’s been 20 so far); which has been the luckiest car number (#3 has entered Victory Lane 11 times); which has...

In the early 1960s, Jim Hurtubise and Parnelli Jones were best buddies while they drove to the front of American open wheel racing in sprint cars and at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.Hurtubise nearly broke the 150mph barrier as a rookie at Indianapolis in 1960 before returning in the Novi where...

{igallery id=6190|cid=52|pid=5|type=category|children=0|addlinks=0|tags=|limit=0} Lots of guys say the first time they saw an Indy car go around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway they were hooked, and that’s my story. It was 1957 and I was eight years old when Tony Bettenhausen lumbered down the straightaway in the Novi. The noise rattled the...