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.
Called the "dean" of auto racers in the press, Herb Lytle was probably the most experienced driver in the first Indianapolis 500. No other driver had been racing cars since the 1890's, as Lytle did.