May 24 - Isottas on the Lusitania

May 24 - Tension mounts at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the Indianapolis 500 is less than a week away and some cars are just arriving. Albert Guyot, driver of the British Sunbeam, is finally practicing on the Brickyard but the Italian Isottas are somewhere on the Atlantic ocean aboard the ocean liner Lusitania - the same ship that would figure prominently in WWI when it was sunk by a German U-Boat. The American Mason team finally arrived, their engines prepared by the upstart Duesenberg brothers. The Speedway put finishing touches on its new race control building - called a "Pagoda" - complete with state-of-the-art telegraph equipment from Western Union as well as telephones for the latest in electronic communications.