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.
Hemmings published this interesting article about Lewis Strang, who started on the pole for the first Indy 500. The article has problems, such as the view that Strang won the pole for the 1911 Indy 500. This is incorrect. He was assinged the pole by virtue of being the first car entered in the big race.