Circular Tracks "Farcical"

File this under the "Don't You Hate Snobs" heading...
 
"For years the principal automobile competitions here have ben races on circular tracks, properly laughed at by the motorists of Europe, where every year heroic contests at hundreds of miles have been held over roads running through mountainous countries. It is hardly too much to say that hitherto the automobilists of the United States were only playing at racing, despite the fact that a number of ghastly tragedies have been recorded. On the other side of the ocean it was early recognized that the automobile was not a track vehicle, that it could not be "extended" on a circular course and that all track racing with big machines was essentially farcical." - Everybody's Magazine, January 1906.