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.
Carl Fisher was an immensely interesting and compelling figure. His risk tolerance was, at least to me, as a pretty risk-adverse guy, nothing short of amazing. Carl's willingness to role the dice financially is well documented in the three biographical books written about him (the best by Jerry Fisher), the PBS documentary (Mr.