Jim Rathmann’s career in motor racing is marked not only by a hard-fought win in the 1960 Indy 500 but also by an unusual name change with his brother Jim…or rather Dick. Jim was underage in 1943 and could not race legally. So, he and his brother exchanged identities, Jim becoming Dick and Dick becoming Jim. Got that straight? Dick, now rechristened Jim, entered his first Indy 500 in 1949—after a tough apprenticeship at various Western U.S. tracks—and was flagged…
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