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," (
The story goes that Kaiser Wilhelm cabled the man he called, "a daring Yankee" when he received word on March 23, 1910, from Daytona Beach that Barney Oldfield had just shatt