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.
In a lot of ways, this Web site is a repository for my notes, research and errant thoughts for a book I am writing about American track racing in the first decade of the 20th century. If you read any of my updates on Facebook or follow me on Twitter it may interest you to know that most of my postings in those forums reflect a point in my book that I am working on.