INDIANAPOLIS
Nobody didn’t want Jim Hunter around. He spent a lifetime in jobs that make others want to duck for cover — journalist, public relations man, NASCAR executive — and yet none of the usual rules applied to him. You always enjoyed it when Hunter strolled along and joined the conversation because you knew everyone was going to end up smiling. He had a million stories, all of them beauties, most of them funny.
INDIANAPOLIS
Confidence bubbles up in a lot of ways. Dale Earnhardt would stroll down pit road, chin up, eyes hidden behind dark glasses, and you…
INDIANAPOLIS
His given name was John Wayne Leary, but Wayne was enough for him. His pal Bobby Unser called him “one of the true chief…
INDIANAPOLIS
The television pictures said everything you needed to know. Sarah Fisher, race driver, had qualified for her ninth Indianapolis 500 earlier, but Sarah Fisher,…
INDIANAPOLIS
In times of change, you look for constants. It is human nature; in a raging wind, you cling to anything stable. Thus, facing an…
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
Terrific. Forget the old cliché about inmates running the asylum. We have turned the joint over to the visitors. There was…
EAST WINDSOR, Conn.
The great ones never shut down the engine. The hair might go gray, the lines in the face might deepen, but the…
TULSA, Okla.
He had a smile made for the big time and talent enough to get there.
Page Jones roared onto the American open-wheel scene at…
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