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," (
Met a man from Tinley Park, Illinois today who tells me there are a lot of Bettenhausens that live there. Here's a great profile of the patriarch of the famed Bettenhausen racing family, Tony Bettenhausen Sr.