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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.

Disbrow and the Cops?

08/05/2009

I came across a small item (second page of the PDF, bottom) about how driver Louis Disbrow tuned his Pope-Hartford racer while driving it from Connecticut to the first Indianapolis 500. Hmm...now just how many cops do you suppose he left in the dust on those old dirt roads?

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