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," (
Donald Davidson, the chief historian of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, produced throughout 2009 a blog (no longer available on the IMS Web site) to chronicle the 100th anniversary of the first year of the Speedway's operations.