The first recorded rear view mirror use was when racer Ray Harroun won the Indianapolis 500 in 1911. Instead of having a co-pilot in the passenger seat as a pair of rear-facing eyes, Harroun used ...

Ray Harroun, however, did not. He replaced the passenger by fashioning a rearview mirror on the dashboard. You can’t argue with the results -- Harroun won the race in 6 hours, 42 minutes and 8 ...

Newby and Frank H. Wheeler more than 90 years ago. In 1911, Indianapolis held its first Indy 500 with Ray Harroun winning with an average speed of 74.602 miles per hour. Since that first Indy ...

Every winner since Ray Harroun in 1911 to Josef Newgarden in 2023 is adorned on the trophy in sterling silver. Tony Hulman who owned the track from 1945 until his passing in 1977 is remembered ...

Even the first Indianapolis 500, held in 1911, was won with the help of a relief driver. Ray Harroun finished first, but 35 of his laps were driven by Cyrus Patschke. Relief drivers remained a ...

Josef Newgarden points to his face on the Borg-Warner Trophy From Ray Harroun, the winner of the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911, to Louis Meyer, the first three-time winner of the race ...

A.J. Foyt is second in starts with 36 from 1958-94 and Ray Harroun is second with eight wins from 1909-11. Aitken also led the first lap of the inaugural Indianapolis 500 in 1911, which was won by ...

You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics. Motorsports have long been the proving ground for automotive innovation, pushing engineers to dream up groundbreaking technology that ...

Before Horton Smith won the first Masters, Oregon the first men's NCAA basketball tournament, Ray Harroun prevailed at Indy and even Richard Sears at the 1881 U.S. Open, Triple Crown hopefuls have ...

Palou has three NTT IndyCar Series Championships in just four seasons. He is the first driver to win back-to-back IndyCar Series titles since Dario Franchitti won three-straight from 2009-2011. He has ...

"I ate dinner with him every night. I studied it, that’s how I learned to be a human being," said Ray Nicholson, who stars in 'Smile 2' Jack Nicholson's son Ray Nicholson grew up studying the ...

With four corners banked at 9 degrees, 12 minutes, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway drives more like a road course than an ...