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," (
One of my latest additions is an Indianapolis News article from May 31, 1911 on how relief driver Cyrus Patschke helped Ray Harroun win the first Indianapolis 500 for the Marmon team.