The IndyCar team launched by Sam Schmidt in 2001 has gone by seven different names, seen nearly a dozen team partners and included five different co-owners during its 24-year history. It's evidence of ...

Sam Schmidt was told his racing career was finished after a violent IndyCar crash left him paralyzed from the neck down in 2000. Fourteen years later, he blasted around Indianapolis Motor Speedway at ...

Check out the story of IndyCar racer Sam Schmidt, who was paralyzed in 2000 but has has led a full life with the help of his ...

Paralyzed in a racing accident nearly 25 years ago, Sam Schmidt has spent much of the last quarter century trying to prove to others that there is a way to have a meaningful life with a traumatic ...

SPEEDWAY, Ind. (WISH) — Each year racing fans, Indiana mayors and business leaders flock to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for a Hoosier tradition — the 500 Festival Breakfast at the Brickyard.

Conquer Paralysis Now, a global non-profit project of the Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation established not long after Sam Schmidt was injured in a racing accident in 2000, recently announced it will ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Sam Schmidt could hear the ESPN reports playing out on the television hanging above his hospital bed as he laid on his back staring at the ceiling. They were a daunting, surreal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I have been chasing race cars since the first Michigan 500 in 1981. The Arrow McLaren IndyCar team is now solely owned by McLaren, ...

Sam Schmidt embraces his curiously contented – seemingly counter-intuitively contented – life at age 61 with gusto. The former open-wheel racer always is game for a defiantly impossible feat, figuring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. INDIANAPOLIS -- Sam Schmidt could hear the ESPN reports playing out on the television hanging above his hospital bed as he laid on ...