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 the early days of auto racing a popular practice was to "barnstorm" the country typically playing before agrarian communities at the horse tracks found on county fairgrounds.