On Sunday May 30, 1982 the 66th running of the Indianapolis 500 mile race was held on the 2.5 mile oval track at the ...

Rick Mears proved his talent in the American open-wheel racing series in his very first ... hitting the wall and flipping his car upside down. Despite the setback, he went on to claim his sixth ...

where his father Bill, who drove race cars himself, ran Mears Excavation, a backhoe construction company. At 11, Rick raced toy slot cars and began spending much of his free time working on them.

In response, Pockrass wrote, “Mears turned 47 yesterday and raced the Baja 1000 in 2023 and 2024, raced an IMCA dirt modified ...

Despite the issues plaguing his car as well as his body, at the end of the race, Mears came away from Sunday's event at the 0.526-mile short track thankful for many reasons. "But I'm happy.

“It’s Helio (Castroneves), Rick (Mears), (Mark) Donohue,” he said ... “He’s a great race car driver, and I know Roger is really, really happy with him. But I don’t know; it ...

Casey Mears has spent over a decade in the NASCAR Cup Series, but his start in stock car racing was not without challenges.

On Monday afternoon, NASCAR revealed a 37-car entry list for Sunday's NASCAR ... The biggest notable on the entry list is the return of Casey Mears, who will make his first NASCAR Cup Series ...