The Winchester Barbershop quartet sang Back Home Again in Indiana under a tent at the Anderson Memorial Park Cemetery Sunday. That song was not yet a pre-race tradition when the Marmon Wasp won the ...

113 years ago | May 30, 1911: Ray Harroun, 32, driving a bright yellow, single-seat Marmon Wasp, a racecar he helped design, wins the first Indianapolis 500. Harroun’s six-cylinder 110-hp Wasp, ...

As the 100th Indianapolis 500 nears, history finds itself front and center. A TV commercial promoting ticket sales shows A.J. Foyt winning the 1977 race — "an American hero," former Formula One ...

The gleaming Borg-Warner Trophy has been globally recognized as a unique, enduring and iconic symbol of the Indianapolis 500 since it was first presented to the winner of the race in 1936, a coveted ...

After more than 100 years, Ray Harroun, winner of the first Indy 500, got his plaque. An enormous American flag flew over a nearly perfect replica of Harroun's bright yellow Marmon Wasp, a single-seat ...

A lot has changed in the 105 years since the first Indy 500. Not just the cars and drivers, but also the way the race is covered. To mark the 100th running of the event this year, the Associated Press ...

When the founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway drew up the plans for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, The Indianapolis Star was there and we've covered every Indianapolis 500 since 1911. For the ...

Few knew what to expect when they converged on Pressley Farm that May morning, not even the reporters who arrived at the sprawling banked oval for the first International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race.

Today marks the birthday of two men whose names will be forever intertwined with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and its lasting legacy. Born Jan. 12, 1874 in Greensburg, Ind., Carl Fisher was 35 ...

The gleaming Borg-Warner Trophy has been globally recognized as a unique, enduring and iconic symbol of the Indianapolis 500 since it was first presented to the winner of the race in 1936, a coveted ...