Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 1910

This folder contains accounts of the races that occurred at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway over the Memorial Day weekend in 1910. All the stars of the day attended, including Ray Harroun, Joe Dawson, Bob Burman and Barney Oldfield. Harroun won events for Marmon and Oldfield set a new track mile record in his world land speed racer, the “Lightning Benz,” otherwise known as the “Blitzen Benz.” This race also offered an obstacle course promoted by the Overland Motors Company. This entailed wooden ramps and a route that took cars off the Speedway’s course, into the infield and through the drainage ditch in the southwest turn. Ernie Moross was the Director of Contests and was responsible for developing the program of events.

Birth of the Marmon Wasp

The attached articles are a nice discovery in that they are first-hand accounts of the development and testing of the first car to win the Indianapolis 500, the Marmon Wasp.
Haley's Comet!

I came across this peculiar (and poor quality, sorry) article from the May 11, 1910 Indianapolis Sun concerning a theater company whose performers requested the day off on May 18 to attend the auto races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Harroun Describes Accident

This is an interesting article in which Ray Harroun, Bill Endicott and Barney Oldfield are asked to describe their feelings at the moment of an accident.
Brickyard Program - May 1910

This article originally appeared in the April 3, 1910 Indianapolis Star.
Wheeler Kicks in $1,000 Prize

The attached article was originally published April 21, 1910 in the Indianapolis Star. 
 
Marmon Call For "Selling Races" - 1910

The attached article orginally appeared in the May 22, 1910 Indianapolis Star as part of the build-up to the May 1910 race meet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
 
Moross: Promoter at Work -1910

The article in the attachment below is a very brief item that was first published in the May 5, 1910 Indianapolis Star.
 
World's Eye on the Brickyard

The article in the attachment below originally appeared in the May 8, 1910 Indianapolis Star.
 
Speedway Records - 1910

This article in attachment IMSrecords050810 was originally published in the May 8, 1910 Indianapolis Star.
 
Brickyard Entries - May 1910

The article in this attachment was first published in the May 11, 1910 Indianapolis Star.