Charlie Brockman

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Charles Thurston Brockman (December 8, 1927 – January 18, 2005) was an American broadcaster and auto racing administrator. He served as president of the United States Auto Club from 1969 to 1972. Brockman worked as a sportscaster on WXLW and WIRE, and he was the sports director at WLWI (now WTHR) in Indianapolis. From 1964 to 1970, he anchored MCA’s closed-circuit television broadcasts of the Indianapolis 500, and he also contributed to ABC’s Wide World of Sports, anchoring the 1965 Indianapolis 500. In 1981, he was one of three panelists reviewing Bobby Unser’s one-lap penalty after the Indy 500; he upheld the penalty but dissented with the panel’s decision not to penalize runner-up Mario Andretti for a similar infraction.