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By: Mark Dill

Below is a collection of articles about the great American driver Joe Dawson who won the second Indianapolis 500 Mile Race in 1912. Also check out this article on Joe from Vanderbilt Races.

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Earl Kiser Portrait

Earl Kiser was one of America's early professional auto racing drivers and a chief rival to his much more well-known contemporary, Barney Oldfield. Kiser succeeded Oldfield on Alexander Winton's Bullet II race car when Barney and Winton had a falling out. Kiser was also a colleague of Indianapolis Motor Speedway founder Carl Fisher.

100 Years of the Birckyard

12/17/2009

On this, the 100-year anniversary of the first time trials hosted at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after it became the "Brickyard" by being paved with 3.2 million bricks, I thought it was a great time to return to the wonderful ABC-TV introduction to the 2009 Indianapolis 500 broadcast. The graphics are excellent and Powers Boothe was a great choice for voice over.

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