Virtually forgotten, Ernie Moross was indisputably one of the more ingenious creative promotive minds in auto racing during the early years of the 20th century. No surprise, America's first auto racing superstar, the attention-seeking Barney Oldfield, hired Moross in 1905 to help ballyhoo his infamous barnstorming tours into the American hinterlands.
 

There's not a lot known about driver and businessman Frank Fox but let me tell you what I have uncovered. Fox was the only driver to start both the May 1910 race meet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway - and, a year later, the Indianapolis 500 - with a prosthetic leg.
 

Bob Burman was one of the great American talents of the Heroic Age. By 1913 he had firmly established himself among the sport's brightest lights. All eyes were on him headed into an Indianapolis 500 that had at last the international participation Indianapolis Motor Speedway Founder and President Carl Fisher and his partners had coveted from the get-go.

Sure, David Bruce-Brown, the "badass" of the first Indianapolis 500, was a young, rich playboy but also one of the greatest talents of the Heroic Age. Unfortunately he additionally became one of the great tragic stories of the era as his life and career came to a brutal, early end.