The great IndyCar driver and race steward Wallace “Wally” Dallenbach Sr. died on Monday at the age of 87. His friends and family say he was able to watch Sunday’s IndyCar race at Barber Motorsports Park and passed the next morning in his sleep. Dallenbach was preceded in death by...

Indianapolis, IN -- U.E. “Pat” Patrick, who won the Indianapolis 500 three times as a team owner, died Tuesday (Jan. 5) in Phoenix after a long illness. He was 91.Photo: Michael Levitt/Motorsport ImagesHis Patrick Racing team fielded race-winning Indy 500 entries for Gordon Johncock in 1973 and 1982, and Emerson...

On the eve of this year’s Indianapolis 500, Racemaker Press released its latest book ‘Wally Dallenbach: Steward of the Sport’. Written by journalist and author Gordon Kirby, Dallenbach’s biography is another in Racemaker’s long series of books on American Championship and Indy car racing.During his tenure as Chief Steward of...

To appreciate Firestone scoring its 500th IndyCar victory last Saturday night since its return to the open-wheel wars in 1995, you have to revisit how it all came together. And that requires a little trip down memory lane with Scott Pruett."The way Bridgestone/Firestone came back into Indy car racing was...

I've spent far too many hours searching for the whereabouts of Ben Johnston's Green Prix USA fleet. My quest to find the cars from the stillborn series always ended in frustration, and as I learned during the process, I wasn't the only one who wondered how 20-plus Indy cars disappeared...