(Editor’s note: NBC Sports is marking the 25-year anniversary of the eventful 1996 Indy 500 – the first conducted after the IRL-CART split – through an oral history series this week, starting with ...

John Menard Jr. is widely known as the richest man in Wisconsin. A tough-minded, staunchly conservative 75-year-old billionaire, he owns a highly profitable chain of hardware stores throughout the ...

John Menard and Eddie Cheever Jr. will join together to form a research and development company named MCT, the two Indy Racing League team owners announced Dec. 4. The company will provide engineering ...

SONOMA, Calif. -- Roger Penske has sponsorship locked down for three of his IndyCar teams next season, with Menards signing on for 10 races with Simon Pagenaud to drive the bright yellow colors of the ...

Four months before December a blue-shirted Menards employee at the hardware retailer's flagship store in Eau Claire, Wis. surveys a display of artificial Christmas trees. A 7.5-foot spruce dolled up ...

Billionaire John Menard and his chain of mostly Midwestern home improvement stores are returning to the Indianapolis 500, which is symbolic for the IndyCar Series. Menard, 76, walked away from the ...

Paul Menard’s victory in the Brickyard 400 was truly a family affair. After crossing the bricks for his first NASCAR Sprint Cup win, Menard radioed the message to his father John, “Dad, this one is ...

INDIANAPOLIS – After celebrating in Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s Victory Circle with his winning driver, the billionaire industrialist naturally jetted off to Charlotte Motor Speedway to watch ...

The gritty legal battle between hardware store titan John Menard Jr. and Indianapolis power couple Steve and Tomisue Hilbert now includes this accusation: trying to buy off a witness. According to new ...

As you’re getting your taxes ready, here’s a number to keep in mind: $15 million. That’s the amount a tax court recently decided that Menard Inc. had improperly deducted from its corporate tax return ...

John Menard defended his associations with foreign drivers in IndyCar by saying Saturday he’s had plenty of Americans. “I mean, we ran Tony Stewart, for example,” he said at Sonoma Raceway, site of ...