The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-15
SPEED PILOTS
ALWAYS TRAIN
Drivers in 500-Mile Race Are
Notified to Get in
Condition.
LEWIS STRANG WILL BE
SEEN IN CASE MACHINE
Johnny Aitken Will Sit at the
Wheel Of National Car
This Season.

Physical training OF an automobile
race driver Is as essential to success be-
hind the wheel as IS the training OF an
athlete TO his success in any sport, ac-
cordinz to the statements OF some of the
oldest motor pilots in that hazardous
sport. The stories of hardships In en-
,lurance driving are told frequently by
the daredevil wheemen. but they are
treated lightly and are as little consid :
cred by them as the element OF danger
which is ever "asent In the game.
The Indiana rs Motor Speedway man
agement has obtained advance permission
TO notify drivers entered in the 800 mile
international sweepstakes race over tnat
course, May 80. that they will be per-
mitted to take their cars all the way
through the Ions grind " they are In sat
isfactory physical condition and pass The
examination OF the representatives OF the
American Automobile association contest
advice with considerabIe satisfaction, as
many Of them feared they would lie gov
crned by the three-hour limit track and
speedway rule In forceSin 1910
Lewis strang Drives.
Lewis Strang. who will pilot Case car
through tpe big classic or The brick oval
''The present rule does not permit
man TO drive long enough. especially on
the speedway where the surface is SO
perfect TO even start. TO tire himself out
II he is in any kind OF physical condition
that is good.
races when We were at the wheel from
nine 10 eighteen hours with no relief,
When ! handled the Acme Six in the
24hour race at Brighton Beach drove
fnf eighteen hours straight and never
fell the least bill of fatigue. Ny arms
and wrists were in excellent condition.
When | handled the Renaut in later
% a-honr race drove nine hours, took
four-hour relief and then went back TO
the wheel again 1 felt fatigued at no
lime.
driving cars today whose arms give out
OH them and they are fatigued before
even even two hours are UP. 1t seems too Gt.. bad
because the others give out. when he
takes care OF himself physically and
keeps In as good condition as any other
athlete.
Then, again in the 2i-hour race three
hours relief. j believe. is not enough. A
man cannot get any rest In three hours.
IL Is great deal worse for him to take
such relief than If ne never took any
Cd"
Aitken on Deck.
Happy Johnny Aitken. the famous
pilot CT National cars, who Will drive
National Speedway roadster. 1911 model,
IN the long race. says:
Surely I want TO drive all the way.
prize to some other Fellow Why, seven
hours on the speedway is nothing more
than a Joy ride, when 1t comes to com
parlson with some OF the other races of
the country. especially the road races.
II don't believe there is a driver who
Will enter. who will not be able to take
his car through without suffering any
III effects. The strain will be on the
cars. for the pace Will be hot one, and
l wouldn't be surprised TO see the record
go TO pieces from start to finish
The speedway management has been
advised by many other drivers who will
participate that the seven hour grind will
not work a hardship on them and they
desire to take their cars clear through
the contest
F. H. Wheeler OF the Wheeler & Schcb-
ler company. manufacturers of the
Schebler carburetor, and one of the di-
rectors of the speedway. says:
Il believe the decision OF the contest
board to let one driver take a car
straight through will make the race much
better from the standpoint OF the driv-
ers themselves. the car manufacturers
and the spectators. 1t has been the ex-
perience OF the speedway in long races
that the spectators enjoyed the game
ness of the pilots az much as the per-
formance OF the cars