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," (
In May 1910 21-year-old Charlie Merz grappled with some pretty gruesome demons who wanted to squelch the passion out of his life. What should he have done to prevent the deaths of three other people? Why was he still alive?