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," (
Did you know the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's first air show was the week of June 17, 1910? The team from the Wright Brothers dominated and their star pilot was Walter Brookins who set a new world's altitude record of over a mile in the sky.