Celebrating his 87th birthday today, Johnny Rutherford is a true IndyCar hero with no fewer than three Indy 500 victories to his name. In today's Great Read he tells the inside story of how the "right ingredients" came together for those historic wins.
One of IndyCar racing's greatest stars of the 1970s and '80s was Johnny Rutherford, who made his name in the early '60s on dirt tracks and won the Indianapolis 500 twice with McLaren in 1974 and '76, and once in Jim Hall's Chaparral in 1980. Rutherford cut his teeth in the late '50s aboard fire-breathing Modifieds at the legendary Devil's Bowl Speedway dirt track in Texas before building his reputation in sprint cars, winning USAC's national sprint car championship in 1965 when that form of racing was at its zenith.
"Today people say sprint cars won't get you to Indianapolis anymore," says Rutherford. "But they do teach you how to race. That was what I got from them – how to race and how to read various situations."
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