Manny Ayulo’s Unusual Path To Indy

Manny Ayulo at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1954. (Bob Gates Collection photo)


  • One of racing’s most respected historians, Bob Gates has been writing columns in SPEED SPORT for nearly three decades.

At a time when most race car drivers were a rough-and-tumble bunch – with blue-collar backgrounds, greasy fingernails and oily clothes – Manuel Leaonedas Ayulo was a bit of an oddity.

Manny, as he came to be known, was born in Burbank, Calif., in 1922 to aristocratic Peruvian diplomat Don Manuel Ayulo and his American wife.

 

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