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By: Mark Dill

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.

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Ray Harroun - Marmon Wasp Sketch

This outstanding sketch by artist David Story includes some interesting notes he has made in the margin. The art was inspired by a famous photograph taken by Russian photographer Nathan Lazarnick on the morning of the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911.

Disbrow and the Cops?

08/05/2009

I came across a small item (second page of the PDF, bottom) about how driver Louis Disbrow tuned his Pope-Hartford racer while driving it from Connecticut to the first Indianapolis 500. Hmm...now just how many cops do you suppose he left in the dust on those old dirt roads?

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