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On this day in history
On May 30. 1911, Ray Harroun drives his single-seater Marmon Wasp to victory in the inaugural Indianapolis 500. now one of the world’s most famous motor racing competitions.
The Indiana automobile dealer Carl Fisher first proposed building a private auto testing facility in 1906, in order to address car manufacturers’ inability to test potential top speeds of new cars due to the poorly developed…