20Mar
03/20/2013
Mark Dill

Mar.20.2013
1697
19Mar
03/19/2013
Mark Dill

Found Last Turn Club today. Looks good, but have not spent time with it...

Mar.19.2013
1696
17Mar
03/17/2013
Mark Dill

George Robertson was one of the biggest names in auto racing in the second half of the first decade of the 20th Century. Two of the races he won in 1909 were the Lowell and Fairmount road races. The links lead to original coverage.

Mar.17.2013
1690
15Mar
03/15/2013
Mark Dill

Check out two new articles published over the past two days. One is on Frank Moore, who ran Fisher Automobile Company for Indianapolis Motor Speedway founder Carl Fisher. The other is on the 1908 speed tournament at Ormond Beach, Florida.

Mar.15.2013
1686
12Mar
03/12/2013
Mark Dill

Just published this article from a 1910 issue of the Indianapolis News that sensationalizes the danager of auto racing during that era, many times referred to as "the Heroic Age." Top stars of the day are interviewed.

Mar.12.2013
1682
10Mar
03/10/2013
Mark Dill

Check out this amazing collection of articles on the opening of the two-mile speedway in Atlanta in 1909. The automotive industry and the general public clearly saw this new venue as a competitor to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Mar.10.2013
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08Mar
Alexander Winton, Henry Ford
03/08/2013
Mark Dill

Henry Ford gets a big break...and a lucky one, too.

 

 

Mar.8.2013
1677
07Mar
03/07/2013
Mark Dill

Check out this interesting article about how the famed "Brickyard" was nearly paved with concrete.

Mar.7.2013
1675
07Mar
03/07/2013
Mark Dill

Over the past couple of months I have published a significant amount of material from the Indianapolis Star, the Indianapolis News and the Indianapolis Sun on motorsport from 1905 through 1910. This represents about 20 percent of the total material I have gathered. Here are some of the highlights.
 

Mar.7.2013
1676
05Mar
03/05/2013
Mark Dill

Just posted this. It's a lot of fun - it puts you right in the seat.

Mar.5.2013
1673