Who are the people that run the IRL, and what experience do they have?
Leo Mehl is executive director of the IRL. Prior to taking this post at the beginning of 1997, Mehl was for over thirty years the person in charge of Goodyear’s worldwide racing operations. In that position, he brought Goodyear from an also-ran in the early ’60s to one of the world’s leading maker of racing tires, and became one of the most respected people in all of motorsports. Brian Barnhardt is the IRL’s chief technical inspector. Prior to this, he was for many years an Indy car crew chief; his resume includes several Indy 500 wins.
