@article{433611,
      recid = {433611},
      author = {Leerhsen, Charles.},
      title = {Blood and smoke : a true tale of mystery, mayhem, and the  birth of the Indy 500 /},
      publisher = {Simon & Schuster,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {273 p., [8] p. of plates :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {One hundred years ago, 40 cars lined up for the first  Indianapolis 500. We are still waiting to find out who won.  The Indy 500 was created to showcase the controversial new  sport of automobile racing, which was sweeping the country.  Daring young men were driving automobiles at the  astonishing speed of 75 miles per hour, testing themselves  and their vehicles. With no seat belts, hard helmets or  roll bars, the dangers were enormous. When the Indianapolis  Motor Speedway opened in 1909, seven people were killed,  some of them spectators. Oil-slicked surfaces, clouds of  smoke, exploding tires, and flying grit all made driving  extremely hazardous, especially with the open-cockpit,  windshield-less vehicles. Bookmakers offered bets not only  on who might win but who might survive. But this book is  about more than a race--it is the story of America at the  dawn of the automobile age, a country in love with speed,  danger, and spectacle.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/433611},
}