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," (
Boy does time fly! Today marks the 100th anniversary of the national championship balloon race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway - the first competitive event at the Brickyard. Historian Donald Davidson writes about it on the IMS Web site.