[1BIGracefan]

Thanks for the help with the photographers like I said I was lost!! Thats not really saying much tho!

And I would add IOW's own Al Consoli and Vern Plotts to that esteemed list.:respect:
(Plus, I would add Randy Jones, but I'm not sure he's 50 yet)

[sprntr]

JP
Pancho

[racephoto1]

Photographers,

Gene Crucean, Mahoney with out him just isn't right.

Drivers,

Tom Bigelow, Gary Bettenhausen, Wilbur Shaw , Troy Ruttman , AJ Foyt,Bobby Black,

You also need mechanics;

Dizz Wilson, Jack French

Ok is this just for Indiana drivers or drivers who came to Indiana and raced for most of there career? :confused:

[1BIGracefan]

I was thinking just hoosiers.

Originally Posted by 1BIGracefan I was thinking just hoosiers.

In that case besides the other obvious choices. In no particular order. Some I don't know for sure if they lived in Indiana or not.

Butch Wilkerson
Bobby Adkins
Kerry Norris
Alan Barr
Leon Thickston
Bob Christian
Ron Fisher
Wild Willy Waterson
Poncho Carter
Mike Johnson
Mel Kenyon, I forgot he still races some. But I believe an exception could be made.
Danny Milburn

You guys got most of my drivers already, and photographers. I was gonna say Crucean until Chris did. We need to add Tom Cherry to the list of drivers. And Karl Kinser to mechanics.

But, here's a few other ideas.
-- Bob Forbes, who announced at the Action Track and the Speedway;
-- Bill Hill, who created much of the good PR the Action Track received;
-- Tony Hulman, who saved the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and oval track racing;
-- Frank Funk, who built Winchester Speedway;
-- Roger Holderman, who raised it to its greatest level;
-- Ed Helfrich for his years of stewardship at Tri-State Speedway, and for fathering Tommy;
-- DO Laycock, for his video work, his Racin' with DO program and just being DO
-- Steve Stapp, a great American original and a racing treasurel
-- Dave Argabright. No reason needed here.

On the photographers, the best have already been mentioned. I have a special respect for John Mahoney, the best photojournalist in racing. His Sprint Car Pictorial with Crucean revealed a true talent for telling a story with a camera.
His buddy Gene had a special talent of looking at things through a different set of eyes, and being willing to take the risk to capture the images.

They do not know just how much they inspired me.

Tom Dick, on the other hand, was simply the coolest cat I ever saw carry a camera. He'd always pre-focus his camera, even if he was standing beside the infield fence sipping a beer. More than once, I saw him having a converstation with someone during qualifiying, hear a flutter in an engine, reach inside his camera bag and squeeze off a crash sequence with his Budweiser iin the other hand. Before he passed, Tom Dick was the first person someone visited at the race track for crash photos.

[Al Pierce]

Originally Posted by 1BIGracefan I was thinking just hoosiers.

Then you can't have Vogler (IL) or Carnegie (CT) :O:

However, it's your thread. Wanna change the rules?

[kinser]

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