May 18, 1913 at the Brickyard

May 18, 1913 - Peugeot driver Jules Goux continued to grab the attention of railbirds and the press at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Clocked at speeds of over 115 MPH down the front stretch his amazing French car was clearly the class of the field. In what the press described as a "brush," Ralph DePalma in his bright yellow Mercer ran wheel-to-wheel with Goux in his deep-blue (see the color in my landscape photo) engineering marvel as they bounded into the red brick-paved the southwest turn. Through an interpreter Goux said of the Brickyard, "The more I see the track, the more I like it. The paving is so perfect..." Meanwhile driver Teddy Tetzlaff paced the garage area fretting about the delays in the arrival of his Isotta racer from the factory in Italy.