Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Doug Boles gave racing fans a history lesson with something of an archaeological exercise. As IMS officials did repairs Tuesday after, as Boles posted on social ...

On November 17, 1946, Bill Carlock and Joe Redinger opened a 3/8 mile banked racetrack on Flato Road and named it “Corpus Christi Speedway”. On that Sunday, 40 jalopies competed in six races. Auto ...

Rutledge Wood walks the bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, explaining how the racetrack was first paved with bricks in 1909 and then the entire track was paved with asphalt in 1961, except for a ...

Scientists take core samples from the earth to learn about the past. It works at racetracks, too. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway last week pulled four cores from the pavement that offer a revealing ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Typically, we think of Charlotte as North Carolina's connection to NASCAR history, but once upon a time, NASCAR drivers zipped around Raleigh on a one-mile paperclip superspeedway ...

Tracy Berger-Carmen, who wrote a book about Nazareth Speedway, grew up minutes from the Lower Nazareth Township track where she heard both the revving of race car engines and the stories that her ...

Have you ever seen a photo of A.J. Foyt on a unicycle in the garage at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway? How about the image of Ralph DePalma pushing his car across the finish line at the Indianapolis ...

View post: Daytona 500 Winner Ryan Newman Gets Unexpected NASCAR Opportunity The history of Daytona International Speedway began in 1953 when Bill France Sr. realized the days of racing on the beach ...