Open an issue of RACER magazine, IndyCar Racing, or On Track from the mid-1990s and you'll notice something strange: A complete lack of WWWs. No URLs, or email addresses from advertisers, and definitely no hashtags or social media information. In fact, with the world slowly waking up to the availability of the web, very few teams, media outlets, or sponsors were online from 1993-'94. If you wanted more information from a company selling a product, you wrote to the address they provided in the ad... By 1995, more racers began to recognize the value of the internet, but news of IndyCar racing and the Indy 500 were still all about print. If it wasn't a magazine or a newspaper, the source was...
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