Mark Dill's blog

Heading into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's first Memorial Day weekend of racing - and its first as the Brickyard - Barney Oldfield was the sport's hero. There's a reason for the story that when an American police officer during the first 30 years of the 20th Century, upon pulling someone over for a speeding violation would ask, "Who do you think you are, Barney Oldfield?"