The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-20
IF | rs H E r Z.
IT'S RIGHT
AUTO SPEEDWAY
READY FOR RACE
Vanderbilt Cup Course Will Be
Opened With Motor Car
Sweepstakes.

In order to open the Long Island Mo-
tor parkway with an automobile event
which will be in keeping with the
fastest race course in the world the
William X. Vanderbilt, IT., cup COM
mission has set aside the elimination
race which was originally planned for
Oct. 10 to be the opening event Of the
new parkway. and substituted 1.-The Mo-
tor Parkway Sweepstakes" an event
which viii take in cars of every class
selling from 81 .000 up.
They will all start together at .
o'clock on the morning of Oct. 10 around
the Vanderbilt cup circuit of twenty
five miles. The larger cars will go the
entire distance. ten laps (250 miles,,
and the smaller ones will go from four
TO eight laps. according to their selling
price
1t is easy to see the spectacular pos
sibilities of such race with seventy
five or one hundred cars all geared and
equipped with racing bodies dashinS
over the cement highway. on which
there is no limit of speed and no dan
ger at curves or intersectng thorough
fares.
II is believed that owing to the de
mand for race between the 1909 mod
els of various classes and makes the
entry list will run up to more than sew
very novelty of the thing is attractive
TO the public. and the liberal conditions
make il attractive to the manufacture
ers who wish to display the qualities
of their 1909 models.
So far as the public is concerned there
Will be something doing at the grand
stand every minute since the scheme
of starting all classes at once effectual-
ly removes a monotOny which has pre-
vailed at similar races where machines
were started in punches according to
their selling price.
Up TO this time il has always been
impossible TO start every class at once.
but owing 10 the nature Of the 1908
Vanderbilt cup course. which consists
of about eleven miles of new and spe-
cially designed cement roadbed il is
now possible to let all of the cars get
away simultaneously or with thirty sec
onds intermission. and have a grand
finish at the end of the 250-mile race be-
tween the higher-poWered cars only.
The smaller machines will go four laps
those selling between 81. 900 and 81. 200
will go eight laps, those selling between
$4,000 and $4,000 and upward viii go ten
laps
The cup commission has offered the
manufacturer more liberal conditions
than have ever been given in a stock
model event. The entrants must fur
nish evidence that the machine is of
type to be produced during 1909 or that
has been produced in quantities during
1908, but touring cars will not be re-
quired to carry touring bodies or pas
sengers. There is no restriction about
mufflers except that they must not turn
toward the ground. and machines can
be geared for racing purposes. Exhaust
mufflers may be removed if desired to-
gether with all mud guards and other
unnecessary equipment for a racing
machine.
1t is believed that this race will af-
ford not only a very spectacular and
exciting event for the public, but ii will
bring forth all the speed which is
claimed by the various makers this
year. The grand stand which is being
built for the Vanderbilt cup race on
Oct. "a will be completed for the motor
parkway sweepstakes, and special Long
Island train and trolley service will be
running just as they would have been
had the Vanderbilt cup elimination race
been held on the 10th instead of the
new event.
The cup circuit is practically COM
pleted. All the bridges crossing inter
secting highways on the cement park
way are up, oil has been ordered for
the state and county roads which are
TO be used TO complete the circuit of
twenty-five miles, connecting both ends
of the cement parkway and an elaborat t.
telephone system for signaling and Tim
ing and reporting the positions of the
cars on the cipcrIif ha baa,, ipctalI1I