THE LEGEND OF THE FIRST SUPER SPEEDWAY

By Mark Dill

Mark G. Dill Enterprises, Inc.markgdill.com/books ISBN 9781098335168 $28 Imagine if you’d been alive, vibrant and wide-eyed, more than 100 years ago. You’d have a smart straw boater on, a wing collar underneath your sack suit, maybe even spats for looking extra spiffy. You’d be marking springtime, when tractors with paddled steel tires began turning the fields over. Amid the dust and blowing pollen, desperately brave men were readying crude motorized steeds for dust-choked, rock-spewing combat on racetracks where horses ordinarily ran, a deadly dance whose prize was immortality at Indianapolis. Fearless men with cold, arrogant glares brushed aside fate’s grasp to do all this. A new book, authored by Mark Dill, someone who clearly understood them, puts you at elbow’s length with these giants. Dill now lives in North Carolina, but was born in…

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