The Grand Old Man of AMA Hillclimb during the 1950s, Mitzel won a total of eight AMA National Hillclimb Championships during his nearly 40-year racing career, certainly one of the longest racing careers of any Hall of Fame inductee. Mitzel rode as a factory Indian rider during the heyday of professional hillclimbing in the late 1920s and through the 1930s. In addition to being oneof the best hillclimb racers of all time, Mitzel also made the occasional foray into dirt track and road racing, earning some impressive results on the tracks in the 1930s.
