This is my wife's favorite excerpt from my book, "The Legend of the First Super Speedway." Autographed copies available at the link.
1911 Indianapolis 500 champ Ray Harroun is alive again in the new book, "The Legend of the First Super Speedway," (
We've talked about "Jap" Clemens before. He shared a National stock car with Charlie Merz in 1905 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds and pulled off a 24-hour speed-distance record.