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.
The famed Blitzen Benz (aka "Lightning Benz") was driven to numerous land speed track records by Barney Oldfield (1910) and Bob Burman (1911). Both drivers achieved the fastest mile speeds that anyone had ever recorded up to the date of their runs.