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More FTW. From The Web. Newspapers and auto-industry magazines noted that for most of the day many seats in the grandstand, though paid for, went unoccupied, and lines at lavatories and concession stands remained serpentine. Few watched for the simple reason that no one could tell what he was seeing.
The opening half-hour had been bewildering enough, but at least it was fairly apparent in those first 30 miles who held the lead. As the field approached 40 miles, tires started to blow. It took some crews only two minutes to change a tire, others eight or 10 or 15, and no one was timing these stops officially, so the already debatable running order became inscrutable. To compound the chaos, some cars were crossing the finish line and then backing up to their pit, so they perhaps inadvertently got credit for a whole additional lap when they emerged and traveled a few feet back across the line.
And the worst breaches of order and continuity were yet to come. What made all this especially maddening was that the race was proceeding exactly as everyone had expected it would, given the natural antagonism between bricks and tires: the smarter drivers, like Harroun, were going at the relatively easy pace of 75 miles an hour or so in an attempt to keep pit stops to a minimum, just as they had said they would in pre-race interviews.
You might think that such a conservative and formful contest would help the clocking and scoring officials in their labors. But no. A few writers—a largely ignored minority, to be sure—were frank about the problems. The spectator could not follow the race. Shuart had been covering their drink tabs , acted as if the race had a coherent storyline. The writers did this partly by guessing at what they were seeing and by agreeing to agree on certain premises.
What any one of these spoon-fed reporters had to say about the running order is mostly worthless. But by braiding their accounts, and occasionally referencing the Revised Results, we can begin to recreate a very rough version of the race. The dashing David Bruce-Brown, we can say with a fair amount of certainty, played an important role. Virtually all the writers agreed that his Fiat, leading when the Amplex plunged into the infield on lap 13, was still ahead when the field began to stream past the mile mark.
At 50 miles, though, accounts diverge. Virtually all sources converge again at mile 60, where they have DePalma ahead, and most also say Bruce-Brown reclaimed the lead soon after and held it for a good long while. At mile , some sources place Bruce-Brown a full three laps, or seven and a half miles, ahead of DePalma, with Ralph Mulford and his No. As for Harroun, he had been riding as far back as tenth place for most of the race by some estimates, but he moved into second place at mile Or so said some sources.
The second significant accident of the day occurred at mile The Revised Results have Disbrow dropping out of the race after about miles and Tetzlaff leaving with mechanical problems after a mere At mile , Harroun pitted and turned his car over to a fellow Pennsylvanian named Cyrus Patschke. At about mile , Bruce-Brown blew a tire and made his first pit stop of the day, and Patschke took the lead. In the opinion of every reporter at the Speedway, and according to the initial data provided by the Horograph, Patschke reached the mile mark first.
The buffs who still chat about such matters know that May 30, , was not the finest hour for the steering knuckle the automobile part that allows the front wheels to pivot.
Several knuckles had given way early in the day, and at about miles, relief driver Eddie Parker broke the one on the No. The Borg-Warner Trophy , one of the most recognizable trophies in all of sports, has been awarded to the winner of every Indianapolis Mile Race since Crafted out of sterling silver by Spaulding-Gorham of Chicago, it was unveiled at a dinner in New York in February , featuring bas-relief sculptures of every "" winner up until that time.
The new winner has been added every year since, and in the trophy's 50th anniversary , the final space became filled. The solution for was to add a base, but this too became filled, and in , an even larger version replaced it, this one with enough spaces to last through The only sculptured face not of a winning driver is that of the late Speedway Tony Hulman , whose likeness, in gold, was placed on the base in Latest News Photo Galleries Videos.
Indy Traditions Since the inaugural race in , the Indianapolis has become steeped in rich tradition, one of the most alluring aspects of "The Greatest Spectacle In Racing.
Balloons Before the Start. Drinking of the Milk Three-time Indianapolis winner Louis Meyer regularly drank buttermilk to refresh himself on a hot day and happened to drink some in Victory Lane as a matter of habit after winning the race.
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