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.
Given that the weather was such a huge factor in the first time trial event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after the track was paved with bricks, I included the weather report from the front page of the December 18, 1909 Indianapolis Star.