New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-19
Ten Miles in 5:32 as Is
Speed Thrill as Track IS
Formally Opened.
GREAT CROWD OUT
TO SEE HUGE PLANT
Sheepshead Bay Course, Fastest
in World, Is ChriStened with
Much Ceremony.

Dario Resta. at the wheel Of his far
famed Peugeot racing car, established
a worlds record at ten miles over the
new Sheepshead Bay Motor Speedway
yesterday afternoon before ten thou
sand enthusiastic spectators. The iron
nerved Italian hurled ms steel steed
over the line in 5 minutes 81 40 sec
onds, which is just % $40 seconds
faster than the former mark, estab-
lshed by himself in the 100-mile race
at Chicago, which he also won, two
weeks ago.
Resta's record was really second in
importance to the informal opening OF
the track, the greatest motor speedway
in the world. Resta was the magnet
that drew the crowd, and his perform
ance merely presaged the myriad
thrills which are bound to accompany
the running of the Aston Cup race on
October 2. 1t may be that in this race
Resta's record will be shattered. II II
is not. it will be because no car has the
speed and power to test the unit OF
the track, for experts have declared
that 100 miles an hour IS possible over
this course.
is
devil driver. He churned up the mud
and dirt in the eyes of his competitors
in the Vanderbilt Cup race in San
Francisco and deluged them with gas
olene fumes in the Grand Prize. Then
he swept on to Chicago, and, in making
his record for 100 miles, declared that
II n track was built that would hold his
car ne would drive as never a man had
driven before in the history Of auto
mobile racing.
Yesterday afternoon he more than
made good his promise. Ten miles IN
5 minutes and 81 40 seconds Is at the
rate Of l08.O39 miles an hour, ana
messages the day of the two mlles-a-
minute car. In driving the lOO-mile
race at Chicago Resta did the first ten
miles in 5 minutes 500 seconds, which
/ is at a tate of 104.35 miles an hour
Despite the terrific speed Resta's me-
/ chanic, Fred McCarty, declared that the
/ limit Of the roaring Peugeot has not
/ been attained. II was said that the
motor was not in its klndhest moou
yesterday
Resta Thrills Crowd.
There was still another record estab-
/ lished on the glistening ribbon OF vel
/ low pine boards. but II Will not enter
| into the record books. Miss Josephine
/ Danforth made circuit of the track
with Harry darkness at the wheel. III
another Peugeot in faster time than
any other woman had ever driven:
/ This. at least, was the statement OF
I the officials.
Resta hung up his record after a
blowout caused him TO stop on his
first attempt. lie tuned up by turning
off lap in 1:34, shutting down as ne
swooped off the high bank 10 the
broad straightaway that leads TO the
finish line. Then. after a brief inspec'
ton, a last look to his motor and tires
and gas supply, he took the track again
II seemed that the car itself realized
that the moment for the supreme Ell
fort had arrived. With the throttle
wide open, il swooped away swiftel
tban the winds. To the thousands IN
the crowd il seemed that the steed OF
metal leaped forward The rap, rap
ran Of the motor barked loud over the
field go,
While Resta steered middle course
y, the first four laps. on the last
round he climbed fyllke TO the top OF
the steep bank and then swooped down
a. A., breathless pace. The car seemed
20 stick 10 the track as a tiy sticks &c
tho ceiling when il turned down the
last bank and finished the trial while
The thousands cheered.
Apparently ignoring the eheeketeo
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