WINCHESTER SPEEDWAY: WORLD’S FASTEST HALF-MILE!

Stephen Cox blogs about one of our great racetracks you’ve probably never seen. In the spring of 1914, Indiana farmer Frank Funk had an idea. This whole newfangled automobile thing seemed to be catching on. Lots of folks were racing them. Carl Fisher had recently built a big oval near Indianapolis and scads of people were paying to see his 500-mile race every year. Funk had made good money in farming. He had plenty of acreage, and his fields, just west of the small town of Winchester, did...
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