1911 Indianapolis 500 champ Ray Harroun is alive again in the new book, "The Legend of the First Super Speedway," (
These are images of some of the amazing scenes of real estate development as Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Carl Fisher and his team willed one of the greatest sports facilities on Earth to rise up out of a farm field in four months.
This graphic supported an article about the first announcement of plans for the construction of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It was published in Motor Age on January 21, 1909, and was contributed by First Super Speedway reader Alan Saters.