“Most of the bricks are still under there,” Doug Boles, IMS and INDYCAR president, tells Road & Track.. “That’s the cool thing about it, when you run the Indy 500, you are racing on the ...

Indianapolis Motor Speedway has hosted more than 100 Indy 500s, as well as thousands of other motor races, over the last century-plus. But some of the original bricks are still buried below the ...

The host track — Indianapolis Motor Speedway — dates back to 1909, ... “The Brickyard” nickname was born and a 3-foot-wide strip of bricks remains today at the start-finish line ...

The Racing Capital of the World doesn’t often touch that 3-foot strip of famous bricks, but for four weeks this winter, IMS president Doug Boles and track owner Roger Penske had the entire swath ...

It was literally paved with bricks. That is how The Indianapolis Motor Speedway earned its nickname, The Brickyard. When the track first opened in 1909, the surface consisted of a mixture of gravel, ...

With the massive Brickyard 400 trophy sandwiched between them, 11 retired drivers who raced Aug. 6, 1994 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway had returned for this memorable photo opp.

This story was originally published in 2019. It has been updated. There are more than 100 years of racing history at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the iconic 2.5-mile track that will host the 107th ...

An original brick from the first Indianapolis Motor Speedway race track in 1909 was cemented into the Purdue Grand Prix track on Wednesday. Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Douglas Boles ...

Indianapolis Motor Speedway has hosted more than 100 Indy 500s, as well as thousands of other motor races, over the last century-plus. But some of the original bricks are still buried below the ...

This story was originally published in 2019. It has been updated for the 2024 Indy 500. There are more than 100 years of racing history at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the iconic 2.5-mile track ...

As just about anyone who's ever watched the Indianapolis 500 knows, a single-yard-wide set of the track's original brick surface sits exposed at the start/finish line of the famed Indianapolis Motor ...