Mel Kenyon is all-time leader in victories (111) and championships (seven) in USAC's midget division but he'll be as remembered for his comeback as much as his achievements.   A year after claiming his initial midget title, Kenyon was badly burned in the 1965 Indy car race at Langhorne, Pa., losing all the fingers on his left hand. Following a few months recovering at the burn center in San Antonio, he and brother Don, his chief mechanic for life, invented a glove that affixed to the steering wheel and that's how he raced the next five decades.   Using that special device in an Indy car didn't prove to be a handicap, either, as Miraculous Mel made his Indy 500 debut in 1966 and...
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