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," (
Some early images from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
This image first appeared in the Sunday, December 19, 1909, Indianapolis Star. J. Walter Christie is seen at the wheel of his Christie front-wheel drive "freak" race car as it roared down the front stretch at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on December 18.