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Fast Time on Elgin Auto Course.


Pre-WWII Racing Elgin Road Race Collection

Fast Time on Elgin Auto Course.

The New York Times
August 23, 1910

CHICAGO, Aug 22.—The first official trials of the Elgin Automobile course to-day evidenced a speedy track.  The circuit of a little more than eight and a half miles was made by a number of drivers at a speed slightly better than a mile a minute.  Grant, in an Alco, drove in 8:21.  Harroun, driving a Marmon, Livingstone, in a National, and Mulford, in a Lozier, did the distance in 8:28.  At one time twenty machines were on the track.  Mrs. Mulford, in khaki and the regulation hood, acted as mechanician for her husband.




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