First Super Speedway contributor Ken Parrotte assembled the information that you will find attached here, and wrote the attached article. The article discusses early days racing flags from the turn of the twentieth century, such as the red flag to start a race or communicate that the course was clear. Read on!

Thanks to auto racing history researcher  Ken Parrotte for providing this article. It's a little-known fact that Eddie Rickenbacker "raced" aviator Lincoln Beachey on a mile dirt track. These articles report on that September 1914 event at the Iowa State Fair.

Tom Mix was a top box office draw from 1920s Hollywood. His genre was Wild West tales where he played cowboy roles. This article reports a departure from his accustomed role to that of a race driver. The movie was, "The Road Demon," (1920).

This article is from a "novel" automobile competition held at Narragansett Park trotting track outside of Providence, Rhode Island. It is a good insight to the buzz throughout the nation about the rise of the automobile and inevitable passing of the horse as the primary source of individual transportation. The cars were called horseless carriages and the event was novel because people only spectated at horse races in the past.