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By: Mark Dill

This is a two-part series of articles that ran in the Saturday Evening Post in 1925. They are an autobiographical overview Oldfield wrote with the assistance of William Sturm. I judge some of this material to be inaccurate, not because Oldfield embellished (not that I put it past him), but because I think he simply forgot things.

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Ray Harroun Lives!

1911 Indianapolis 500 champ Ray Harroun is alive again in the new book, "The Legend of the First Super Speedway," (

Incredible Hercules

03/30/2011

The man Indy 500 fans called "Hercules," Jim Hurtubise was one of the great characters of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the 1960's and 1970's. This video clip is both raw and amazing. Those feint of heart may not want to view as this includes some images of Hurubise's terribly burned hands as he recovered from his injuries in a Houston burn center.

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