Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bill Vukovich Jr., part of Central Valley motor-sports royalty but also a central figure in a tale of auto racing tragedy, died ...

In the late 1950s, Indianapolis News sportswriter Angelo Angelopolous wrote a book on tragic two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Bill Vukovich but for unknown reasons, it was never published. Former ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- On the morning of the day he would die at Indianapolis Motor Speedway vying for his third straight Indianapolis 500 victory, Bill Vukovich did things he had never done before on a race ...

Bill Vukovich II, the 1968 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year and a member of one of the race’s most prominent families, died Aug. 20. He was 79. Vukovich was the son of two-time Indianapolis 500 ...

Bill Vukovich Jr., part of Central Valley motor-sports royalty but also a central figure in a tale of auto racing tragedy, died this past week. He was 79. The Fresno native was struggling with heart ...