Indiana’s Beloved Hoosier Heroes

Ed Carpenter and his family after he qualified for the 2023 Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Al Steinberg photo)


  • Bruce Martin

    A career newspaperman, Bruce Martin has been covering IndyCar and NASCAR racing for SPEED SPORT since the mid 1990s.

Racing in Indiana is as important to the Hoosier State as basketball. It’s been that way for more than a century as “Indiana’s Game” in the winter is played on the hardwood and its greatest sporting event of the year began on bricks.

It’s the Indianapolis 500, run every Memorial Day or Memorial Day weekend since 1911 except for the COVID year of 2020 when the famed race had to be moved to Aug. 23.

 

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