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.
I was doing some research on Peugeot racing history recently and came across this video on their Web site. It is of a Peugeot scaling Pikes Peak in Colorado. The hill climb event ranks up there with the Indianapolis 500 as one of the oldest continually running motor sports competitions in the world.