Pippa Mann’s 2010 Firestone Indy Lights season was momentous, often tough, sometimes disappointing, occasionally jubilant. Driving for Sam Schmidt Motorsports, she captured three poles, including Indianapolis, and won at Kentucky. Despite breaking her left hand at Edmonton and sitting out a race while it healed from surgery, she finished fifth in points.
Henry Banks didn’t look like a race-car driver. Soft spoken and well mannered, he looked more like an accountant or a teacher. Yet, behind the wheel of a race car, that Clark Kent persona disappeared, replaced with an extraordinary finesse, aggression and ability.
Born Clifton Reign Griffith in Nineveh, Ind., Feb. 6, 1916, Cliff Griffith spent his formative years in and around Indianapolis. Like most young men from central Indiana, he was inevitably drawn to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
On the morning of this year’s Brickyard 400, Steve Hmiel, director of competition at Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, glanced at the calendar on his cell…
His mother was Woolworths heiress Barbara Hutton. He was married, for a time, to actress Jill St. John. Cary Grant was a stepfather. The…
Plymouth is not a name often associated with Indy-car racing. On Aug. 24, 1969, however, not only did a Plymouth-powered car win an Indy-car…
HISTORIC VENUE: A Buick, a Model T and a White steamer participated in the first race at Belleville High Banks on July 4, 1910,…
DRIVING ACE: Eddie Rickenbacker and his co-driver prior to the 1916 Indianapolis 500. (Indianapolis Motor Speedway Photo)Long before Ohio-born Eddie Rickenbacker was America’s Ace…
USAC sprint cars at Bloomington (Ind.) Speedway in 2009. (John DaDalt Photo)Bloomington Speedway is a quarter-mile clay oval nestled in the rustic Indiana countryside…
FAMOUS CAR: Basement Bessie was one of Joe Silne’s most popular creations. (Bob Gates Collection Photo) At a time when hand forming metal was…
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