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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 caricature of Ralph De Palma appeared after he broke the world land speed record in February 1919 with a run of 149.875 MPH at Daytona Beach. The big source of pride for Americans was that the car was a Packard with an aero engine designed in the United States. De Palma had a hand in the machine's design.

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