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.
Motor sports journalist Gordon Kirby published the second half of his Delta Wing analysis and while it gets to the concept of open source technology by using the Linux analogy I suggested, it still comes off as vague. Too much of the article is spent reinforcing the message that Indiana suppliers would be employed and the machine could be built in Indiana.