{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}} '''Charles Thurston Brockman''' (December 8, 1927 &ndash; January 18, 2005) was an American broadcaster and was a president of the United States Auto Club from 1969 to 1972.<ref>{{cite episode|series=The Talk of Gasoline Alley|series-link=Donald Davidson (historian)|station=WFNI|airdate=May 2, 2014}}</ref>

==Biography== Brockman worked as a sportscaster on WXLW, WIRE and worked as sports director at WLWI (now WTHR) in Indianapolis, Indiana. From 1964-1970, he anchored the MCA closed-circuit television broadcasts of the Indianapolis 500. He worked on ABC's ''Wide World of Sports'', and anchored the broadcast of the 1965 Indianapolis 500. He also was one of the 3 appeals panelists for Bobby Unser's appeal of his 1-lap penalty following the 1981 Indianapolis 500. Brockman was the only panelist to uphold USAC's penalty, although he also dissented with the panel's decision to not penalize runner-up Mario Andretti for a similar infraction.

{{S-start}} {{Succession box | before=None| title=Television voice of the<br>Indianapolis 500| years=1965 | after=Chris Schenkel}} {{S-end}}

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