in on Sunday, sell on Monday.” This well-known catchphrase has powered motorsports since the beginning of the automotive age. Even Henry Ford, a man who was as unsentimental about the idea of the automobile as a farmer was about a horse, understood the romance provided by the racetrack. In 1901, at the Detroit Driving Club’s 1-mile oval in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Ford famously raced and beat Alexander Winton, the Scottish-born engineer whose cars
