This Vanderbilt Cup Race driver profile focuses on Ray Harroun. Ray was the winner of the first Indy 500 Race driving a Marmon to victory in 1911. He also won the 1909 Wheatley Sweepstakes Race that was held in conjuction with the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race and finished 21st in a larger Marmon at
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