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 ran in the November 28, 1909 Indianapolis Star the day after the paper ran a story about former heavyweight world boxing champion Jim Jeffries visiting Indianapolis.