‘Gas tank on wheels’: Indy’s history of innovative cars, courageous drivers

SPEEDWAY, IN – My knowledge of the Indianapolis 500 ranges somewhere on the scale between famed Indy racing historian Donald Davidson and a brick. I’ve been enamored with the 500 since I was a kid, covered the race in the 1970s and ’80s when I worked as a sportswriter in the Midwest, and I’ve gone back yearly since the mid-2000s.