MARTIN: A Racer’s Racer

A filthy Parnelli Jones at a mid-1960s USAC race. (SPEED SPORT Archives photo)


  • Bruce Martin

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

INDIANAPOLIS — Racing lost another hero and this one had a Mount Rushmore presence.

It was the great Parnelli Jones, a man who literally could drive – and win in – any type of racing machine. He was as proficient in NASCAR stock cars as he was USAC midgets and sprint cars.

 

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