Who are Tony George and the Hulman family?
Tony is currently the president of Indianopolis Motor Speedway, a racer himself (he’s occasionally spotted in a Legends car at Charlotte) and the grandson of Tony Hulman, who purchased the track in 1946 and owned and operated it until his death in 1978. (More specifically, George is the son of Mari Hulman George, who is the daughter of Tony Hulman. Tony’s father is Elmer George, who competed at Indy in the early ’60s.) Tony George himself doesn’t actually own the Speedway; its title is held by Hulman and Co., a privately held corporation controlled by the family. Tony has made a number of changes at IMS over the last few years, both in the operations (such as inviting NASCAR to run a stock car race there), and in the facility itself. Tony is also the president of the Indy Racing League, which like IMS is privately controlled by the Hulman family. He sees the IRL as the logical growth path for American open-wheel racing.
