The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-14
Automobile News
FORBIDDEN TO TRY OUT
 sHEEPsHEAD BAY SPEEDWAY
DaF4o Resta After a Restricted Trial Pronounees It the Worlds
 Fastest Course

with triessxnooth wooden surface of the Sheepshead Bay Speedway now laid for the entire two-nile circuit with only a few stretches of steel framework on the outer edge uncov- cred by pIanking, New Yorkers own ing fast cars have been itching to try out for themselves the speed possi- bflities of the wonderful course Man aEer Everard Thompson. however. IS s.danant in his determination that there shall be no high speed test of the curve banked track until it is thrown open next month to the en- trants. for practice for the. opening s50- mile race on October 2. Accord ingIy no one Is admitted to the speed way without a pass and if! allowed on thestrack at all is forbidden to-indulge in anything faster than mere touring speed.
 Even Dario Resta,. winner of the Chicago Derby and holder of the worlds record who recently visited the speedway with Manager Thompson, was not permitted to hit up 9 gait fast enough to require his car to climb very far up the steep banks at the turns. Even with the trifiing try-out Of 1t T was permitted to make, said he. T am convinced that the Sheeps- head Bay Speedway is far and away the fastest motor race track In the world. and I am very ia amiifar with the Brooklands aud Chicago courses. TSCtS l. 10f not DG112NSs IT1E1L SAI13 Ee1C- ing cars in. existence today are cap able of proaching its full speed pos abilities. 1T will go even further and say that new cars will have to be built before high enough speed can be at sfained tospute to use the upper edge of the high curved bankings
 With Barney OldheId and Bob Burman both putting up laps in prac- tee for their four-cornered race at Chicago with Restas and Cooper at a faster Fate than no miles an hour. motor racing sharps are more than ever convinced that close to two miles a minute will be made in the elinina- ton trials on Sept z4s z5 and z6s Tor the Sheepshead Bay race, and that tn e Winner will have to maintain an av- craze of over 100 miles an hour Tor the entire 50 miles.
 The progress in the construction of the grandstand has kept pace with that of the course itself. The steel framework Of the double-deck grandr ' stand has been erected for close to a thousand feet along the homestretch The monster structure now towers Eh in air and is visible for g long dis tance. Even the spectators in the first tier Of seats will be elevated so high above the ground that they will have an ur olxen view of the race at every point and Of the thousands of people if1 the great sheId below them At the zarie time directly before them will bez the pits presenting a lively Specta- cIe 6f tire changing and fuel replen- isaing
 Preparations for the monster motor car parade@to fte speedway. as a fea- ture of the start of formal practice at tias course on Sept IS are well und CT way At a special meeting of the Mo- tar Club of New York directors, tEits plan of shoHdng the appreciation of automobiIe TOW of the building of the speedway was for rna3lx sf approved. President Toback appointed W. C. PDertnef, B J. McShane and George Robertson as the clubs committee in charge.