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," (
Check out this interesting highlights video of dirt track racing at DuQuoin and Springfield Illinois in 1963. Rodger Ward and A.J. Foyt were the men to beat but it is interesting to see Jim Clark at Springfield sitting in a dirt car.