Video: Johnny Rutherford’s Yellow Submarine
RacinToday.com’s John Sturbin takes a look back at 1980, his first year covering the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race. John was writing for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and hometown hero Johnny Rutherford won the race that year, from the pole, in the revolutionary, Texas-built “yellow submarine”, making Sturbin’s rookie year at Indy a most memorable one!
[...] was the pole-sitter and center of attention all month in Jim Hall’s Pennzoil Chaparral – The Yellow Submarine – the car that brought ground effects technology to the Speedway. The Texas connection between [...]