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.
This video is a viral promotion for the Simeone Museum, a facility I know very little about, but on the surface appears outstanding. In June 2009 they ran an exhibition of two old race cars that figured prominently in what I like to call "the heroic age," or pre-1920 auto racing. One is a Stutz, another a Mercer.