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.
Thanks to auto racing history researcher Ken Parrotte we can present this historic photo from the 1945 contract signing for Tony Hulman to purchase the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.