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," (
This is a pretty interesting video of a sprint car race the day after the 1964 Indy 500 which was won by A.J. Foyt. On this day Foyt decided to give grizzled veteran racer and general wild man Jud Larson a ride in his sprint car.