Thought I'd expand on a post about the Floyd Clymer Indianapolis yearbooks, it might work as a general reference for people. Floyd Clymer published what might be called scrapbooks, all sorts of stochastic materials in cheap softback covers, for years. There were some more interesting things amongst the chaos; Russ Catlin's biography of Ted Horn, for example, or a AAA competition yearbook for 1953. One of the biggest Clymer publications though was "The Indianapolis 500 Race ...
Indianapolis qualifying was never logical. From being on pole position by virtue of getting your entry in the postbox before anyone else to the three strikes rule, it was always contrived. The easiest and fairest way to qualify is just time everyone and the fastest car is on pole. Of course that would be impossible in the past, and unfair today; drafting and so on, and track changing conditions, would make it a lottery, other than Penske would be on pole. So various contrivances ...
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