The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-27
Finishes in All Big Autonlo
Events Have Been Decided
Exciting. q
TIRES ARE BIG FACTORS
IN ALL LONG CONTE
Constant Swinging Around
Curves More Racking d
Cars Than Touring,

NEW YORK, Nov. 2e.-Tbi, N
tainly been the year OF close Amid. /.
the automobile racing world. Sin.
tober thcre have been Ave ra ~.
OF Importance. In which the Iarrsas
gin between the first car and the !.
mas oeen a minute or less cbjeA-~
The race for the Grand Prize AZ "a
nan recently comes RS fitting sic-
the season. because In il Bruca. F'
and his Benz defeated Hcmer,. sr@
seh1 In what must be the closest r
IL takes an electrical timing asx,,>
decide things when n big ,ronby -.
Won or lost by / ~ seconds. Jt wa
another BIT OF hard luck for Hemery,
III 1908 was beaten In this race h,
ncr in the Fiat by SO seconds a.,
this rate Hemery is bound 10 VIZ
next race by about o. seconds. "
The savannah road contest was N.
diately preceded BY TWO thrillinix /
races az Atlanta. In the contest for
atlanta trophy of 200 miles r,s~
driving o. Marmon. won from Mu,for<
the Lozier by 4 seconds. That ~
very little. IL was followed bv she
mile race for the Atlanta Syer.,
Grand Prize, which Koran in the 4 J
won from Burman in the Marnn'
BUICK o. minute. This proves IA
been the largest margin to separafe;
Two cars In the autumn's racing. ~
On October | the Vanderbilt c,,u
was ruu on Long Island and won
Srant and the Alco by % seconds
Dawson in the Marmon. This ISN'T I,
OF a margin for a contest OF 279 n
Then came the o00-miIe race in p
delpl1'a for the Fairmount Park trc
Zengle. in n big Chad wick, won 4
o.ae seconds from Mulford In a L.ozI
Much Depends on Tires,
Taken all In all these races ha II
exciting enough in the point OF Pin,
satisfy anyone. And as q. rule Il I'M.
said That they were victories not "a II
OF CARS as OF tires As long as the
hold out the drivers can go along ne
ing to the schedules they have FRA
In most cases the winning Car
Mlchelln tires, so It may be suld
they start on equal ground In d.
spect. r.
What makes the difference tiien:
must be the way tho cars are bui}f
the handling they receive from the
ers. A man who sends f1ia car ar
q turn 30 that the tires arc burne|
almost Will get into trouble probal,I
the way. The more careful diver.
is. the MAJ who makes his speed on
stretches and not on the bends, Is I
to keep going all the time. "a
strang's Good Fortune.
Tho famous example OF stranc.
drove the Isotta In two winning
several years ago without ever ll1o
any tire trouble. is q sign of wha. q
may do with q. combination OF good q
Ing and some good fortune. II Is n
be denied that there Is an elemcn|
luck In the performance Of DIRE
then again II is usually found Ia
most adept driver hns the best To-
Bruce Brown had 10 make on1v
tire change in his race and even I'D
the tire changing is dono very fa1I
IL was with the Marquette Buick, N
event IL is time lost. When a car n
ing driven, Mt the retc of seventy a
an hour wait OF 5s seconds for' n
change. il that has IN be repeated
a dozen times or more At the plf1
bound TO count up. Grants steady
ing In the Vanderbilt cup race N
wins OF tho Alec. was helped out
minimum of tire trouble,
The result OF o race of the dufr
biles may easily be changed confpl|
because of ~ stcppaEe for tires. For
stance, Xenglo In the Chadwick he
stop only once in the Fairmount
race. and that in the last round BED
OF Trouble with his tires. II looked
he hadn't a chance TO get Mulford-
the replacement was made In tiul4
him 10 hold his narrow margin OF
than 6 seconds. The merest slip b.
repairers and the whole race would
gore TO pot. |
These contests. whether on road Il
track. do prove something then ahou|
Sides OF automobile racing. If the q.
designed right and the driver hsndI<
we'll end the tires hold up and the
tlon doesn't fail. and the machine 81
up In all parts, II should win " n
vclops speed. But the point Of II u
all conditions must be right WI
car wins one OF these big races n
close up 10 the winner IL Is 81
good sign that II is a good car.
racking and strain OF racing is uI
test than the average car gets In 20
of touring. IL the man who gets e.
these cars can be shown that II -
of The racing type y
rest assured that ne has workanI@
tomobile.
Track racing requires different 81
car. as rule, from the road CONT
shorter wheel base Is generally de1Ir
in track racing. because very lon<
swinging constantly around turns
much for the tires and wears thc1
very quickly That was the expc<
of one company, which entered a e
n track race after Il had been YER
tunate I'm road races. only 20 find
bill OF $4,000 for tires followed
venture Each SORT o<
under each set OF conditions has t1
aratc siCnitlc1uCc.