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The Great Savannah Races (Hardcover)
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The Great Savannah Races (Hardcover)
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While automobile races had been held in Europe earlier, it was not
until after 1900 that organized races were held in the United
States. These contests took the form of road races--usually over a
series of connected links of the best roads available. The most
important of the early races were held on Long Island, New York. As
a result of the efforts of the Savannah Automobile Club, the
International Grand Prize Race of the Automobile Club of America
was held in Savannah, Georgia, for the first time in November of
1908 and was enormously successful. In 1910 and again in 1911 the
most famous drivers and the finest racing cars from all over the
world returned to the city for the Grand Prize Race. The 1911 event
attracted thousands more who came to witness the famous Vanderbilt
Cup Race, the fastest race of this length up to that time (291
miles in 3 hours and 56 minutes). Julian K. Quattlebaum was among
those who lined the Savannah race course for a glimpse of the big
Fiats, Loziers, and Mercedes that roared around the turns, across
the finish line, and into autoracing history. He has written a new
introduction to this edition and has gone through his collection of
early photographs of the cars, the drivers, and the races to add to
the generous selection of illustrations in the original edition.
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