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," (
William F. Nolan, biographer of Barney Oldfield wrote a remembrance of the legendary driver's stirring drive in the 1914 Cactus Derby. I came across it in a Google search and decided to share.