Sad as it was (following 1972, in which we had also seen a speed-related fatality), the 1973 race did result in some rule changes that made racing at Indy and in USAC generally safer. Although it came with an aspect that in hindsight proved much more questionable that it initially appea...
“famously there was a cloud burst just after the start…once the rain stopped, it dried up quickly and we had some really great racing,” Allan Dick wrote (Classic Auto News) Bruce Sergent wrote that “the car was built around the frame of the Bira race winner (NZ GP) of 1955, bu...
Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar racing when she took home the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi in Japan. Then 26, Patrick was just three years removed from her Indy racing debut, and she held off two-time Indy 500 champ Helio Castroneves by over two seconds. ...