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," (
Just one example of minds born of nineteenth century sensibilities struggling to get wrapped around the realities of not just a new century but also the industrial age comes in the reactions of so many to the dangers of auto racing.