For decades the 500 sold out by the end of June for the next year's 500. And that was with near zero promotion or marketing. There were a couple of weeks of Practice, two weekends of Time Trials...
The paint job and number match 1969 and the little diagonal decal under the number on the nose is one from Wagner Lockheed Brake Fluid which was the...
You are likely correct in today's racing world. But back in the Don Smith/Bill Hill promotion days the Action Track ran just two USAC sprint car races and the Hut Hundred for midgets in a season. ...
Which was a big mistake as far as I'm concerned. You end up spending much of the evening looking directly into the sun. There must have a been a good reason for the move but it doesn't seem to have...
Now they have a chance to draw a really good crowd with all of the 500 fans in town. That's why the Indiana State Fairgrounds Hoosier Hundred was moved from the traditional September date to May...
I didn't see it in the article but this was a CSRA (Central States Racing Association) race. AAA had dropped out of racing at the end of 1941 because of the war but other groups continued to race...
The first sprint car race at Terre Haute in 1970 was in June. There was both a USAC sprint car race and a USAC midget race (the following Wednesday evening) during the Vigo County Fair. In...
Silver Crown cars have clutches so push vehicles aren't needed. If they have any kind of competition break (a la NASCAR) it defeats the purpose of a hundred mile race which is what the entire series...
Per the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 34,157 Americans died from influenza in 2018-2019 flu season. That included 477 children aged 0 thru 17. No one says a word about flu deaths. I guess...
Interesting in that there is no 100% vaccine for seasonal flu either. And although no one worries much about it the flu is every bit as deadly as the Wuhan Virus in numbers of deaths. Every year...
That Offenhauser business was started by a nephew of Fred Offenhauser and had nothing to do with the original Miller/Offenhauser/Meyer-Drake racing company. Fred "C." Offenhauser started the company...
USAC made roll cages mandatory for sprint cars and midgets starting with the 1971 season although by the end of 1970 most of the cars were running them. Ralph Ligouri won without a cage at Williams...
I just found out that the Midwest Supermodifieds will run at Lucas Oil Raceway next Saturday, September 14th. Supposedly, there will be other events as well but I haven't been able find any more...
Because today's Silver Crown cars have lineage going back to the Championship cars that raced in the Indianapolis 500 from the start. The rules always called for transmissions and starters (whether...
