Indy-The World's Fastest Carnival Ride

Indy-The World's Fastest Carnival RideIn The Early Fifties it was a movie titled To Please a Lady, starring Clark Gable, with actual race footage and the faces of real drivers like Mauri Rose and Wilbur Shaw and huge ferocious cars resembling U-boats on wheels. The tires were absurdly narrow and grooved with tread on only the right half of the running surface. The movie was my first glimpse of a world that had previously enthralled me purely with sound. I was ten years old and to drive at Indian...