Who was the first woman to drive a Championship car at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway? Most people believe it was Janet Guthrie, who was the first woman to qualify and compete in the Indianapolis 500. But the first woman who drove a race car around the track was Paula Murphy.
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In his book Offenhauser, Gordon Eliot White covers the fifty plus year history of auto racing from the perspective of the engines built by Harry Miller, Offenhauser, Meyer & Drake, and Drake Engineering. It has not only the engines made for Championship racing including the Indianapolis 500 but also for midgets and ...
The winner of the IndyCar drivers' championship has been presented with the Astor Cup since 2011. This cup has ties to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway through Carl Fisher, one of the cofounders.
William Vincent Astor, the son of John Jacob Astor IV, donated the silver Astor Challenge Cup for the ...
In the early summer of 1914, John Andrus, a Portuguese inventor, was working as a mechanic in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He told Dr. W. B. Chambers, a prominent auto racing enthusiast living in McKeesport, about the compound he had developed which was not only cheaper than gasoline but also could make ...
Prest-O-Lite was the primary factor which made the Indianapolis Motor Speedway a reality. While both Carl Fisher and James Allison might have had the financial wherewithal to build the Speedway, the success of Prest-O-Lite made it easily achievable.
In the early twentieth century, Percy (“Fred”) Avery obtained the French patent ...