David Malsher-Lopez

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ShareThis is disabled until you accept Social Networking cookies. By David Malsher-Lopez - Jun 16, 2025, 11:17 PM UTCThe Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, in its completely revamped form, has been open for two months now. Its president Joe Hale and head curator Jason Vansickle spoke to RACER about how the transformation has been received by the public. RACER: What feedback have you received regarding the museum?

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ShareThis is disabled until you accept Social Networking cookies. By David Malsher-Lopez - Jun 5, 2025, 12:08 PM UTCIt couldn’t end like this, with just 90 of 1440 minutes to go. José Froilán González sat on the pit wall, rain drumming on his yellow helmet, as Scuderia Ferrari mechanics feverishly tackled the reluctant electrics on the Ferrari 375 Plus which his co-driver Maurice Trintignant had just brought in.

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One day, several months after his Indy 500 win in 2018, Will Power tried to explain just how much the event means for its participants, and how it plays on the mind between races. “It’s easy to look at the list of Indy winners and say, ‘Oh, that’s the year that guy missed out on the win, but a couple of years later he got his revenge.’ When you’re looking at it as history, you’ve got that perspective, right?

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ShareThis is disabled until you accept Social Networking cookies. By David Malsher-Lopez - May 25, 2025, 5:41 AM UTCA potential three-peat for Josef Newgarden or Helio Castroneves’s fifth victory are merely the highest profile records on offer in today’s 109th running of the Indianapolis 500: there are numerous chances of landmarks being laid at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this afternoon.

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ShareThis is disabled until you accept Social Networking cookies. By David Malsher-Lopez - May 24, 2025, 12:06 PM UTCOne of the most spectacular designs in IndyCar history came from a British drawing board for a team from Texas. Forty-five years ago, on Sunday, May 25, 1980, it conquered the Indianapolis 500. “What that car would let me do was amazing. The only time I had to lift the throttle at Phoenix was crack it just a little to transfer weight to the front for Turns 1 and 2.