Dario Resta competed in the first race ever held on Britain’s hallowed Brooklands circuit on July 6, 1907, and died there trying to set speed records on September 3, 1924. In between the two, his European career had its highs and lows, but his exploits in the United States were, without doubt, the stuff of heroes. He won the 1915 American Grand Prize, the 1916 Indianapolis 500 and, in that same year, became the only non-American to win the American…
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