Historic Indy 500 Photography

If you dig through the internet long enough, occasionally you will discover an unexpected surprise. Such is the case with this monthโ€™s featured Web site devoted to photos taken at the Indy 500 during the early โ€™70s.

This interesting gallery of color photos was created by a current motorsport photographer with photos taken by his dad in the early โ€™70s.

The collection includes on-track action, as well as a large number of pit and driver shots. Of particular interest is a series of photos taken in 1971, when the pace car driver lost control during the start of the race and struck a stand full of photographers (see below)!

http://home.att.net/~g.m.miller/classic.htm