Fans Watch as Schwitzer Wins, 1909
| Description: |
Fans watch eagerly as Louis Schwitzer drives his Stoddard-Dayton down the track. Text on the photograph reads: Louis Schwitzer. The first race ever held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a five-mile event on August 19, 1909, for cars with a piston displacement of not more than 230 cubic inches. Louis Schwitzer of Indianapolis is shown here as he drove a four-cylinder Stoddard-Dayton to victory in 5 minutes and 13.4 seconds, an average speed of 57.43 miles an hour. Three other short races and a 250-mile feature event, won by Bob Burman in a Buick with an average speed of 53.7 MPH, completed the first days program. |
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| Origin: | 1909 |
| Contributor(s): |
Funding provided by an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant, administered by the Indiana State Library |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/IMS/id/14668 |
| Collection: |
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Collection |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
Copyright Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Copyright permissions granted for non-commercial use by Indianapolis Motor Speedway. |
| Subjects: |
Schwitzer, Louis H., 1880-1967 Automobiles, Racing Automobile racing drivers Crowds Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Speedway, Ind.) Pagodas |
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