500 Miles to Go
500 Miles to Go
The 50th Anniversary Edition 1966
The story of the Indianapolis Speedway
By Al Bloemker
Hard cover 6x9 316 pages
The world's greatest sports spectacle - the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's classic races, from 1911 to 1960. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs and complete list of Winners of the '500' [through 1960] 500 MILES TO GO covers the complete history of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the 500 Mile Race from the time it was nothing more than Carl Fisher's dream through the Depression Days when Eddie Rickenbacker battled to keep the race on the annual International schedule, up to Tony Hulman's success in making the Speedway a plant of modern racing magnificence. All in all, this is the most exciting story ever written about one of the world's most thrilling and dangerous sports.