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A INDY 500: 100TH RUNNING / BUICK CONCEPTS / BOOKS LETTERS / ST. ANTOINE / KITMAN / CUMBERFORD / 1. Indianapolis Motor Speedway itself is 107 years old. The Indianapolis [...]

THE PAST 50 YEARS SPAN A period of nine U.S. presidents, the explosion of cable television, the rise and demise of the space shuttle program, and the introduction of the [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN IF SCOTT DIXON HAS one red golf shirt, he has a hundred, maybe more. Ball caps, too. And when the work clothing in his wardrobe is white [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin If Josef Newgarden's first wall impact at Texas Motor Speedway wasn't quite frightening enough, his second was enough to make just about anyone look away in horror. [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN GET A GOOD LOOK at the IndyCar Series rookies mid-pack in the first race box score of the year. Why? They might not be there long. Conor [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN Almost everything in Indianapolis Motor Speedway history has been explained or understood through one source or another. But one mystery remains as the 100th Indianapolis 500 approaches. [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin Remember when it was feared Team Penske might win every IndyCar Series race in 2015? That seems so long ago now, especially after only two of Roger [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin LEAVE IT TO THE INDYCAR SERIES TO again change direction. Instead of returning to the Milwaukee Mile, Auto Club Speedway and NOLA Motorsports Park (after only one [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN JPM WINS INDY TIME HAS A WAY OF clouding the memory, so go back and watch Juan Pablo Montoya's first Indianapolis 500 from the year 2000. Despite [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN After Team Penske, Ed Carpenter Racing and others spent much of 2014 whipping it, Target Chip Ganassi Racing ended the season with three wins in four events, [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN So subtle was the 1994 change of scoring pylons on Indianapolis Motor Speedway's frontstretch, many people didn't notice. But that wasn't the case this year as bright [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN They came in droves, 715 of them, in almost every shape, size, era and speed, grouped in more than a dozen classes. Cars, that is, and really [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin An old racing adage says there are no secrets in motorsports. But there was one in 1994 and it was arguably the best-kept ever. Ask Mario Andretti. [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN TO HEAR RYAN HUNTER-Reay talk about winning the Indianapolis 500 is to understand he'll be a fine champion. On his bold late-race passes of three-time Indy winner [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin JIM NABORS, WHO famously played Gomer Pyle on 'The Andy Griffith Show' and 'Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,' first performed at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1972. He happened to [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Doug Boles recently called Robby Gordon the most persistent man in motorsports, a good thing to say about a driver but an even [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN This month's Indianapolis 500 would do well to even approach last year's staggering statistic: 68 official lead changes among 14 drivers. But hope abounds because competition abounds. [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin Gary Bettenhausen, one of the links to open-wheel racing's glorious past, died on March 16 at age 72. The oldest son of racing great Tony Bettenhausen, who [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN No single label was enough to describe Anthony 'Andy' Granatelli's life in motorsports. ?Mechanic. Driver. Promoter. Car owner. Innovator. Sponsor. But Granatelli was also fond of another [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN As with any IndyCar Series season, there was good and bad in 2013. Often it seems for every good turn the series makes, a bad one follows. [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin Tony Kanaan got his first laps with Ganassi Racing's IndyCar Series team during a Sebring International Raceway test Dec. 3. He joined new teammates Scott Dixon, the [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin Hulman & Co. CEO Mark Miles is expected to soon have some news about IndyCar and Indianapolis Motor Speedway. As for IMS, it could be getting its [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN AND STEVEN COLE SMITH Short of joining hands and singing 'Kumbaya,' the joint Grand-Am and American Le Mans Series weekend at Road America on Aug. 10-11 could [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN AND MAC MORRISON Is IndyCar headed to the Circuit of the Americas track near Austin, Texas? COTA already hosts Formula One, the American Le Mans Series, Australian [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN INDYCAR Series driver James Hinchcliffe was wrong to say no one in open-wheel racing 'will ever warm up' to racing twice in the same weekend. Many enjoyed [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN IndyCar is relinquishing control of the struggling Firestone Indy Lights series to Dan Andersen, who owns the other two steps in the Mazda Road to Indy development [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin New IndyCar boss Mark Miles liked what he first heard from Derrick Walker, which is one of the reasons he hired him as the sport's racing chief. [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin IN TONY KANAAN'S pocket during the Indianapolis 500 was a necklace bearing a medal he believes helped him finally win the Indianapolis 500. The medal was his [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN Blocking shouldn't be an issue in the Indianapolis 500 unless it's the race's final lap, but the topic's relevance is growing for races on road and street [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin Maybe Indy-Car's race in Long Beach is the springboard Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing expected in the Graham Rahal era. With Rahal finishing second, one-off driver Mike Conway [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin Chip Ganassi sure knows how to stir the pot. Now the question is, has he created a mess? During IndyCar's St. Petersburg weekend, Ganassi lashed out at [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN Officially, Mark Miles went to work for a company that owns several businesses, including a multitude of real estate properties, but it effectively means he's the new [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin IndyCar's Mid-Ohio event began with Charlie Kimball breaking his hand in testing, his teammate Graham Rahal having contract issues with Chip Ganassi Racing and Helio Castroneves running [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN ALEX ZANARDI IS GEARING up for participation in his first Paralympic Games, to be held in early September in London. At 45 years old, the two-time CART [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin The most memorable images of the revitalized Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix were chunks of loose track that delayed the IndyCar race for two hours. But [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN Dan Wheldon would have been proud of the IndyCar chassis he helped develop. Other than a pair of cars that got off the ground briefly, the DW12, [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN An Izod IndyCar Series season that began with such hope ended in disaster and heartbreak when Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon was killed in a crash at [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin IndyCar officials say they are 90 percent sure that the series will race in China next year. If that happens, Ho-Pin Tung is ready to assist. The [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN THE UNSPOKEN ramification two weeks after nonsensical tussles marred IndyCar's July 10 Toronto street race was three avoidable contact penalties called in Edmonton. IndyCar officials would have [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN The 2011 Indianapolis 500 field might not be the greatest in history, but it is intriguing. In addition to having five previous 500 winners, five series champions [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN Sixty-seven different drivers have won the Indianapolis 500 through its 94 (and counting) starts, and those men are celebrated for years, immortalized on the Borg-Warner Trophy. But [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson thinks that Tom Carnegie, the voice on the track's PA system, had the greatest impact on Indy 500 qualifying of anyone [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN DRIVERS GO TO the Race of Champions for different reasons--some to party, some to win, some to make a name for them-selves. Meet one of the name [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN IndyCar executives recently had to replace four International Speedway Corp. tracks (Competition, Sept. 27)--Kan-sas Speedway, Watkins Glen International, Chicagoland Speedway and Homestead-Miami Speedway--for 2011, and now they [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN iNDIANAPOLIS 500 history came alive in early October on a picturesque morning at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, when race cars representing 33 events at the legendary track occupied [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin It seems wherever Helio castro- neves goes these days in the IndyCar Series, Charles Burns is there with him. The season's signature moment so far is Castroneves [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin Sometimes the stars align to produce a great story, and the IndyCar Series got one on April 18 in California. Five months after his mother died from [...]

Byline: CURT CAVIN Let's not con-fuse the issue: Helio Castroneves might have won the most recent Izod IndyCar Series race, but he is not the one to beat as the [...]

Byline: Curt Cavin Dario Franchitti was not too far into his IndyCar Series victory speech on Oct. 10 at Homestead-Miami Speed-way when he began celebrating the life of his lost [...]