Speedway Motor Race game

Description:	Can you hear the roar of the engines? Can you feel the wind the cars whip around the curve just in front of your eyes? Cars have been racing in the Indianapolis 500 since 1911. With games like this 1930s Speedway Motor Race board game, players could race without leaving home. The toy’s maker boasted “designed to furnish all the excitement and skill of an actual automobile race.” Players selected their cars- Fiat, Stutz, Pierce-Arrow, Cadillac, Packard or Locomobile and jockeyed for pole position. Carl Fisher, along with 3 business partners, built a motor parkway in Speedway, Indiana in 1909 to test automobiles. Central Indiana was quickly becoming a dominant force in automobile manufacturing with dozens of companies like Marmon, Cole, Stutz and Duesenberg using the facility to test cars. Out of this competitive spirit, automobile racing exhibitions began in 1910. A year later in 1911, the first Indianapolis 500 was held on Memorial Day. Spectators came by train from as far away as Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and even New York! Forty cars participated with average speeds of at least 75 miles per hour. Ray Harroun won in a single seat yellow automobile nicked named the Marmon Wasp which was a modified version of the Marmon passenger car.
Source:	http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/tcm/id/2052
Collection:	The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Rights:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/;
Copyright:	Creative Commons (CC By-SA 3.0);
Geography:	Indianapolis (Ind.)
Subjects:	Indianapolis Speedway Race Board games Games Automobile Racing Automobile Racing -- Indiana -- Indianapolis

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