INDIANAPOLIS -- Never in his wildest dreams would Carl Fisher have envisioned the day the Indianapolis Motor Speedway would see a drone deliver the checkered flag to a robotic dog, who would wave it while driverless cars sped around the Racing Capital of the World at times more than 150 mph.
In Fisher’s day, rear-view mirrors were cutting-edge technology, IMS was paved entirely by bricks and the inaugural Indianapolis 500 winner averaged speeds just a tick under 75 mph over nearly seven hours. And yet, Fisher, James Allison, Arthur Newby and Frank Wheeler wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.
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