The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-19
RESTA CHRISTENS
MOTOR SPEEDWAY
AT 1903 MILE CLIP
Sheepshead Bay Track. Driver
Says, VIII BE Good for
1870 Miles an Hour.
TEN THOUSAND SEE
OPENING OF COURSE

The sheepshead Bay Motor Speedway
showed itself n thing accomplished yes
terday. and the fastest automobile race
course in the world, as It was prom
ised 1t would be. made good that proph-
ecy and pledge. Dario Resta, whose
italian name FITS in oddly with his
British accent. drove a French Peugeot
car ten miles In 8 minutes 80 As sec
onds. averaging 1Os.o4 miles an hour.
the fastest on record for this feat.
lie himself in Chicago did ten miles.
the first ten OF "A match race where
he did better than 100 miles In the
hour. In 0 minutes $40 seconds. That
Is the record. as nearly as any exists,
that Resta cracked. lie is nearly the
whole allied nations. being 1talian-Eng-
fish and driving "A French car. And
TO make "A bad pun, he certainly went
around there a-Itussian.
More than 10000 persons were there
for the informal opening. Almost all
went by automobile. and certainly more
than 5000 were In the parade, made
up of divisions from New York, Brook
Ign n Newark, that competed for prizes
in various groups. The parade. for a
wonder. started promptly on time aud
m.aue soou headway. getting through
Brooklyn to the bay.
Some odd and original decorations
appeared. one of the most pretentious
was the Chandler float, the submarine
y. L. Chandler, which was entered by
the Brady-Murray Motors Corporation.
II won first place in the advertising
division. A Marathon car. decorated
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a zap 10 get gong was followed by
MS WAVING ms manu- as ne came 10 Inc
ilaTN' VI oILe! 10 slsHaI that ne was
10 go. freu "gher gave nm the WORD
ana 'he tri'I was on. Hestas previous
tnorts iooNed IKE crawling compared
10 what ne turned loose then. From
the stand his car seemed an aeroplare
the way IL rose along Ne first turn
to the wide, nigh walled curve. Up.
UP ne Grove holdlnS the - loot em-
with the sure tread OF a fly.
The motor, although the cutout was
open gave on only a steady drumming
Ike some super-partridge scuddinG along.
Then Resta climbed away high on the
second turn and stood steadily for the
homestretch and the end of his frSt
time around. one minute six and two
hfths seconds. a mile in 80 Ia seconds.
was recorded, slightly better than los
miles an hour
Every yard of the way from then on
was the same as the first lap. with only
fractional differences in the time. Iiesta
came to the end of the second lap, four
miles, In 2 minutes 10 10 seconds six
miles, 3 minutes ~ 40 seconds eight
miles, 4 minutes &c "a seconds. and ten
miles. D minutes 81 80 seconds. The
lap times were / :0G So, ! ;OG A., :06
90, :O6 as and l :OG 30,
How fast were you going at the
best Resta was asked.