Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-26
More Interest is
Being Shown This
Year in Racing Game
American Manufacturers Are With
holding Their Entries from
Foreign Races.

NEW YORK, March 25.-The formation
OF the American Automobile associations
national racing circuit il tending TO curb
this country's interest in the French
Grand Prix American manufacturers
who consider the foreign racing propO-
sition seriously are Withholding their de-
cisions until the first closing day of the
entry list, which is April 1. Foreign maxi
ers, however. have already named cars
formally. Three each of the Hispano-
Suize, Peugeot, Roland-Pilain and Elk
celsior cars have been nominated in Class
A, which is limited as regards cylinder
capacity to a bore Of ~ inches.
The Fiat and Benz companies have sig
nified intentions Of also competing in this
class II the racing cars now under con-
struction will be completed I'm time to meet
the specifications. II this is impossible
both firms viii compete in class B. in
which there is no restraint as regards
engine dimensions.
In this open class will also be found
a number Of so-called amateurs although
the term amateur has not been strictly
defined by the International Association
OF Recognized Automobile Clubs.
There is a possibility that well-known
professionals will be found at the wheels
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of which the factories will profess that
they have nothing to do For instance
it is known that several 1OO-horsepower
Italas are scooting about the Italian roads
and that szisz' is doing some fast driving
with big Renault, as is Luttgen with a
12O-hOrsepower Mercedes.
The course is in the shape OF a rough
triangle, and is fifty-three kilometers long
mil Ha lar nj he
start and finish will be at Pontlieu, a
suburb town Of lie Mans, where the ex-
position of western France will take place
this summer.
The first leg of the course will be prac-
tically straight over twenty kilometers of
the old national road built by Napoleon
and which is the main highway for trav-
elers proceeding TO Tours. At Economy
a sharp turn is taken and the course pro-
ceeds over a rolling road through st. Mars
d'Ouulle to the limits of the town of
Grand Luce where another sharp turn to
the left leads into the homestretch which
is Is kilometers long. and except for a
slight bend at Parigne-T Eveque It is
fauitlessly straight.
w. j. Morgan the American represent
alive. writing from Paris, tells of a trip
he and John Kane Mills and Count
Charles de Rumford made over the course.
Morgan declares that the circuit is the
fastest natural road course he has ever
seen and that II is not impossible that the
winner will have a worlds record for
average speed per hour to his credit. Mr..
G. Singher, president OF the Sarthe club
which is promoting the race-droye the
| Americans over the course and stated that
| after talk with Victor Hemery, who
lives at lie Mans, that he forecasts an
eighty miles per hour average for the
total distance OF $50 miles
Except for a change of speed while MAX
ing the three turns, there is no place on
the course where full speed will not be
possible under perfectly safe conditions.
Despite the fact that phenomenal speed
is expected to be obtained, to the Amer
lean mind It seems hardly possible that
the average of 1927 miles an hour. at
tanned by Teddy Tetzlaff in the Santa
Monica road race, win be exceeded.