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By: Mark Dill

Below is a collection of articles about the great American driver Joe Dawson who won the second Indianapolis 500 Mile Race in 1912. Also check out this article on Joe from Vanderbilt Races.

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Earl Kiser Portrait

Earl Kiser was one of America's early professional auto racing drivers and a chief rival to his much more well-known contemporary, Barney Oldfield. Kiser succeeded Oldfield on Alexander Winton's Bullet II race car when Barney and Winton had a falling out. Kiser was also a colleague of Indianapolis Motor Speedway founder Carl Fisher.

This Motor Age article covers the national championship race meet June 28 - 29 at Brunots Island outside of Pittsburgh. Fiat driver Chevrolet dominated the entire race meet, and won the 10 mile national championship final with Oldfield and his Peerless Green Dragon second. The article was in the paper's June 31 edition.

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