Each car was required to lock its break and slide the wheels technically to qualify. Cutting car No. It returned in a few minutes and passed inspection.
During the preliminary bands played lively airs in the stands and the big crowd cheered lustily when national airs were played. Spectators Strain Nerves. The thousands of spectators with straining nerves and with pulses throbbing sat still watching the steel cars that coughed and spluttered and barked with sounds like fusillades of musketry.
Fisher and J. Allison, speedway owners who sat quietly in a Stoddard-Dayton roadster, acted as pacemaker. Caleb Bragg, in his Fiat, was at the pole in the eighth row.
Billy Knipper alone in a Benz was in the rear. Explosions of Motors. When the signal came there was a deafening noise of the countless explosions from the exhausts, and the sudden application of power into the veins of the monsters caused them to forge ahead with fast flying wheels that slipped around the brick course until they could gain headway.
Smoke of blue and white hues arose in clouds until many of the cars could not be seen. It was suggestive of a battle when the rows of plunging cars emerged in soldier-like formations from the cloud of smoke and started on the preliminary lap. It was a nerve stirring spectacle that brought the spectators to their feet, and as if by a sudden impulse all the lungs in the great throng burst out together and a mighty roar of voices spurred the fliers on. This great getaway, which the racing experts of the world pronounced as the most thrilling spectacle they had ever seen, was planned for the sole purpose of eliminating the smoke so that the spectators could see the cars when they came around and started on the race proper.
Fisher Sets the Pace. With Fisher hugging the pole, the rows of cars moved around the south turn of the course at the start and maintained their alignment on the back stretch. Here and there a car would be seen to fall behind or forge ahead, but as a rule the pilots were enabled to keep a regulation speed and the column was not broken. The speed of forty miles an hour was maintained by Fisher, whose machine was equipped with a speedometer, and not once did he seem to vary in the pace he was setting.
The excitement became more intense when the column rounded into the home stretch and moved with precision toward the tape, as it was generally known that Fisher would drop out after the preliminary round and the racers would then begin a race that might cost human life. There were not a few in the stands who did not speculate as to the chances the drivers would be taking a moment later.
When the column reached a point opposite the first pits, several hundred yards north of the tape, Fisher veered off to the left near the pit fence. Bombs Were Exploded. Bombs were exploded during the preliminaries, and when the cars approached the tape in the preliminary round a great bomb was set up, Thus was the signal that the race was on, and the cars lunged forward, the leading cars having an advantage of a clear road ahead.
The racers were soon strung out along the course in bunches of two and three and sometimes four even before the end of the first lap. Indianapolis News. Harroun is in Lead at Indianapolis News , May 30, ; front page, left margin. Categories : Indianapolis related newspaper articles The Indianapolis News, Hidden category: Subpages.
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