The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1907-01-12
FAMOUS DRIVERS ARE COMING.
Harding and GunnessW Be Us
Days Unit the GreaM CONNIE

actually push it and coax it to it's absO-
lutte limit
Walter C. Allen, president of the De-
Dietrich company, was asked to
drive the car himself at the coming races
on our beach, but he promptly deferred
to Duray. America knows nothing but
good of Duray as driver. He is cool,
daring, resourceful, and in his nerve in
taking all manner of chances is almost
actually reckless He knows his car as
ne knows himseif-haS lived with it,
driven it and won with it. With no in
structlons save that 20 win to hamper
him, he expects TO do much, and will
make an especial effort to wrest from
Demogeot the title Of Speed King"
and also to lift the Minneapolis cup from
England and its Napier bv lowering
Chlford-Earp'S marvellous record for the
100 miles
Reports have it that the 600-mile run
to Havre was made by Duray in record
time There was no stop whatever, and
for u miles on the road east of Lansing
Duray pushed his car at rate of 105
miles per hour That is going some
and means that there will be magnificent
tribute paid to the god of Go-Fast on
Ormond-Davtona beach during the jan
uary races by this car at least.
The MaXwell-Briscoe company, whose
200-horse power racer was barred from
the Vanderbilt race owing to overweight,
has publicly announced that this defect
has been remedied, and that this power
full racer Will positively appear at the
OrInond-Daytona beach races this year.
Who will drive it for them has not yet
been announced
Announcement has also been made
that Francois Ricard. builder of the
anderbilt car, viii have a new cara
freak on our beach course, and, with
probably Paul Sartorf driving, will con-
test for honors.
+. T. Stanley has stated that he will
have three ears on hand, leach faster
than the cigar-shaped car Marriott drove
last year This means that there is
going to be something doing" in the
steam line. Marriott viii again be in
charge, with Fred Durbin assisting him
in some of the events.
Mr. Vanderbilt, it is stated, will again
send that 250-horse power Ricard car to
Orlnond-Daytona Plucky little Joe
Downey vii endeavor to make it go, if
it IS finally decided to enter the racer in
the coming contests.
This Is all the ears that made reputa-
tons last year accounted for except two
the Flats and Napiers.
A. for the Napiers, S. F. Edge, Of Lon
don, whose English Napier, driven by
Walter CHford-Earp, holds the worlds
record for the 100 miles, and at present
The Minneapolis cup, VIII undoubtedly
enter q Napier again this year. He must
WIN that I00-miic event again to perma-
Lcntly hold the cup, and there is little
doubt that such d sportsman as Edge
VIII 60 in for it and not tamely seeit go 10
another country. Then, too, Edge will
t...ye boat entered in the Miami-Nas-
-au 'fiag-to-hag" race, and, having come
here for that event, he VIII probably not
let our Ormond-Daytona automobile
contests slip by.
As for the Fiat ears, Messrs- Hollander
/, TangcInan Will undoubtedly have one
81 their cars, if not more, on our beach
this year. Who will drive is uncertain,
butthe chances favi rthe peerless Lancia,
OF that other darilg Italian, Cedrino-
Cedrino has not betn heard from since
his accident in Cuba, but wiseacres pre-
diet he viii show up on the scenes when
the Ormond-Daytona automobile races
take place nine days from today