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Longtime IMS Superintendent Cagle Dies At 88
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Longtime IMS Superintendent Cagle Dies At 88
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Clarence Cagle, who helped save the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from oblivion after World War II and served as track superintendent for 30 years, died July 5 in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was 88.
Cagle, a native of Terre Haute, Ind., returned from 33 months of Army duty, much of it in the European campaign, in 1945 and went back to work for the Hulman family. When Tony Hulman purchased the dilapidated Speedway a few months later, he called in Cagle. In a quiet and methodical way, Cagle spent the next 50 years working either as superintendent or consultant for the track he considered "my baby." He saw it rise from the ashes of World War II disuse - the track was closed from 1942-45 - into the magnificent Mecca of automobile racing that it is today.
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