Pits of Fulford-Miami Speedway

This rare photograph provided by auto racing history researcher Chuck Rudy shows the pit area for the Carl G. Fisher Trophy Race on February 22, 1926 at the Fulford-Miami Speedway board track. Fisher built the track after hiring Ray Harroun, winner of the first Indianapolis 500, to apply his engineering skills to design it. The banking was 50 degrees. The wood plank track was 1.25 miles long and thus required 240 laps to complete the 300-mile contest. Peter DePaolo won, with Harry Hartz second. Note the black crew member in the foreground, uncommon due to the intolerance and racism of the era. The Miami-Fulford Speedway was destroyed by the Great Miami Hurricane just seven months later.
 
The finishing order appears below and you can find more information on these fine drivers elsewhere on First Super Speedway.

  1. Peter DePaolo
  2. Harry Hartz
  3. Bob McDonogh
  4. Frank Elliott
  5. Earl DeVore
  6. Ben Jones
  7. William Shattuc
  8. Dave Evans
  9. Leon Duray
  10. Peter Kreis
  11. Jerry Wonderlich
  12. Zeke Meyer
  13. Fred Comer
  14. Tommy Milton
  15. Ralph Hepburn
  16. Dave Lewis
  17. Earl Cooper
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