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.
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.
If you are not familiar with Conceptcaz.com, do yourself a favor and check it out. Beautiful photography of cars, many of which are vintage machines dating back to the earliest years of automobiles and racing. One of my favorites from the early days is the Fiat S74 that was driven to victory in the 1911 American Grand Prize in Savannah, Georgia.