Would never put Fittipaldi on the list he refuse the milk for his own oj commercial ! Maybe thats why the wall grab him the next year.

Is that Wiber Shaw any relation to Wilbur? Just kidding! Wilbur Shaw was one of my favorites. I enjoyed his automobile road tests in Popular Science magazine and "Gentlemen, Start Your Engines" was one of the first racing books I bought. Sadly, he died in a plane crash on Oct. 30, 1954 near Decatur, IN on his way back from testing the 1955 Chrysler. I am surprised that his hometown of Shelbyville, IN does not have any recognition of him, such as a plaque denoting that as his hometown.

Shaw's book is one of the best I have ever read. I urge anybody that hasn't read it to do so.

Speaking of driver's hometowns, I just recently found out that Ted Horn was born in my hometown of Cincinnati. Cool.

My list would be different, because I wouldn't include anyone who didn't drive a front-engined car. :-)

I have a book written by Russ Catlin titled "The Life of Ted Horn". I bought it around 1970 from a book vendor in northwestern Illinois who was selling out. I bought every book he had left. They were primarily Floyd Clymer publications, including many Indy 500 yearbooks. There were many interesting books in that collection. FYI, Ted Horn was born Eylard Theodore Horn.

Ron, his name was Stanley Hegberg. He lived outside of Chicago and sold Clymer books for years. I bought many 500 yearbooks from Mr. Hegberg over the years.

Vukie,

Yes, that was his name. I'm glad you reminded me, because it had slipped from my memory.

That is some crazy Aussie logic..........

First you try to include guys who never drove at The Speedway, in a list of the best to ever drive in the Indy 500. Then you try to include some clowns, in your personal list of the best to ever drive in American openwheel competition!?!?

Ask an AMERICAN who they would include in a 'list of the best to ever drive in American openwheel competition', and you would hear or see, names of men who've raced and won at places like Winchester, Ascot, the Indiana State Fairgrounds, Knoxville, Belleville, Eldora, and so on.

But you want to include Sebastien Bourdais, Cristiano da Matta, Alex Zanardi, etc in that list...are you serious?

Huh!!....What about Danny...Spin n' Win who??.....Sullivan......
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Let's not start this re-hashing of Tony George is the devil ***** again. Just pick 33 INDY 500 drivers.

This "split" ended three years ago. Done. Over. Accept it and move on. We around here like the distant past. You like the recent past.

We around here love our Saturday night short track heroes. Zanardi and Da Matta do not fit into that mold.

I think the average age of posters on IOW is at least double your age. Just so you know what era our thoughts and feelings are coming from.

You have to remember where you are posting. This is not a website called wineandcheeseracing.com.