SPEED SPORT has been reporting on and covering motorsports happenings from all over the world for 85 years, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in the archives to see what happened 10, 25 and 50 years ago each week.

So check out what SPEED SPORT was covering 10, 25 and 50 years ago this week in Looking Back!

10 Years (May 20, 2009): Tony Stewart earned his first victory in the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race and his first victory as a car owner at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. Driving the No. 14 he co-owned with Carl Haas, Stewart survived a chaotic final 10 laps that saw him take the lead from Matt Kenseth on lap 99 coming out of turn two. He motored away to a nearly one-second victory.

Other Happenings: John Andretti and Ryan Hunter-Reay were the unlikely heroes of Bump Day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as both men bumped their way into the field for the 93rd Indy 500; Del Worsham delivered his second-straight victory in Funny Car competition for Al-Anabi Racing at Bristol Dragway while Tony Schumacher and Mike Edwards also collected victories; Kyle Busch won the NASCAR Camping World Series East-West combo race at Iowa Speedway.

25 Years (May 18, 1994): Al Unser Jr. put his Penske Mercedes on the pole for the 1994 Indianapolis 500 with a 228.001 mph average lap time. He secured the fastest lap during the first day of qualifications, but had to wait until Sunday to see if his teammate Emerson Fittipaldi could bump him down the order. Fittipaldi could only muster the third-best time, leaving Unser to claim his first Indianapolis 500 pole.

Other Happenings: Ernie Irvan was the class of the field en route to winning the NASCAR Winston Cup Series event at Sears Point Raceway in California; NASCAR announced the creation of the SuperTruck Series, with exhibition events planned for July of 1995; two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Rodger Ward suffered a heart attack shortly after announcing plans to build a race new track in Adelanto, Calif., known as Southern California Motor Speedway.

50 Years Ago (May 21, 1969): Bobby Isaac and David Pearson split a pair of NASCAR Grand National Series events held over two days at Maryland’s Beltsville Speedway and Virginia’s Langley Field Speedway. Isaac dominated at Beltsville, leading every lap of the 300-lap affair from the pole. Isaac led the most laps at Langley, but ran out of gas late in the race and that allowed Pearson to pick up the win.

Other Happenings: Ramo Stott ran out of gas, but still managed to win the second running of the Tennessee 500 stock car race at Bristol Int’l Speedway by 10 laps when rain stopped the race early on lap 412; With 84 cars in attendance attempting to qualify, rain washed out the first weekend of Indianapolis 500 time trials for the first time in history; Al Unser’s dream of competing in the Indianapolis 500 were dashed when he was injured in a motorcycle accident that resulted in a compound fracture of his left leg.