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.
In some ways, the Indianapolis 500 was bigger at its beginning than it is today. In those days the entire nation, even the world wanted to know what was going on. Exhibit A, the front page of the San Francisco Bulletin for May 30, 1911.