Looks like Conor Daly got a little close to the Turn 1 wall at Indy 500 practice today. (H/T!)

My friend Galen has a real knack for finding interesting old movies and slides at tag sales and other similar piles of trash. He's even found footage of Hitler before, but I'm more excited about this find: a home movie of the 1946 Indy 500.

I blue myself this morning: Arrested Development will be officially back on Netflix next month. All 15 episodes will be available at once on May 26. That's the same day as the Indy 500, which, as far as I know, doesn't include a stair car.

Throughout the How To Drive Fast series, I’ve offered opinions based on the experience I’ve amassed during my 17-years behind the wheel. The whole basis of this column is to help you drive faster, and learn the tricks and techniques utilized in the quest for victory. But for this piece, I turned to my friends for help: …

Star Indy 500 couple Ashley Judd and Dario Franchitti are getting a divorce. Now we get to use this seemingly appropriate but entirely wrong image of milk-drenched euphoria that suddenly appears like sadness.

November 14th, 1945, Tony Hulman, a businessman from Terre Haute, IN., purchased the famed but rundown Indianapolis Motor Speedway from Eddie Rickenbacker for $750,000. It was this purchase that brought the fabled Speedway back from the ashes of World War ll and turned it into the World's Greatest Race Course.

The last lap of this year's Indy 500 included a serious sphincter-clencher for Dario Franchitti. Takuma Sato attempted a pass in a headwind on turn one, but the 226-mph inside run on the leader was unclean, and the always-courageous Sato took himself out. But the lack of on-screen drama for his rival belied what was …

Google Maps continues its search to document every last bit of our private and public lives, now extending its all-seeing eye to the very bowl of the Indianapolis 500. Nowhere is safe, not even inside the Brickyard.

The early 1970s were quite possibly the craziest years in Formula One and not only because of the mammoth sideburns. These were years of wild experiments in fields as apart as aerodynamics and sponsorship structures, and they produced fascinating evolutionary dead-ends like the Lotus 56, a turbine-powered, four-wheel…