Tony Hulman’s family valued education and giving back to the community. After graduating from Yale University in 1924, Hulman returned to his hometown, Terre Haute, Indiana, and joined the family business, Hulman & Company.
With his experience of playing on the Yale University football team, he became the football coach ...
As a youngster, William Walker frequently heard the stories about his second cousin’s open-wheel racing career. On a trip to the family cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee, he noticed a large memorial. Close examination showed an intricate design of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, even down to the bricks in the track. ...
I suspect you are saying “Caitlin who”? When Josef Newgarden won the 2023 Indianapolis 500, Caitlin Brown also entered the record book as the first woman to serve on the winning team as part of the over-the-wall pit crew. She was the left-front tire changer.
Caitlin grew up in a ...
If you enjoy conspiracy theories, this book raises the question as to who actually won the first Indianapolis 500. The race was a full field with eight rows of five cars each lined up at the starting line. The Marmon Wasp, piloted by Ray Harroun, would cross the finish line ...
One of my favorite things about the pre-race festivities at the Indianapolis 500 is seeing the Marmon Wasp, which won the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911, on the track leading the group of historic racers. This is a short story of how the Marmon Wasp came to be.
The Marmon ...