This collection of articles is a good research source for anyone interested in learning more about the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's project to pave the track with bricks during the autumn of 1909. This action was triggered by the tragic events of the Speedway's first auto race in August 1909. This collection focuses on the December time trial events that yielded new records and demonstrated the speed and improved safety of the facility. The weather was brutally cold, sinking to as low as 9 degrees. The track was covered in snow earlier in the week and Director of Contests Ernest Moross announced that he would pour gasoline on the bricks and set them afire if necessary to clear the Speedway for the trials. Temperatures were so biting that the drivers created homemade chamois balaclavas to protect their skin.

Time Trial Practice Begins

The article in attachment IMStrials121509 was first published in the Indianapolis Star December 15, 1909. This article reports on the initial practice laps on the newly brick paved Indianapolis Motor Speedway from the previous day, December 14.
Morning of First Time Trials Day

The article in attachment IMStrials121709 was first published in the December 17, 1909 Indianapolis Star. The article concerned the second day of practice on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's freshly brick paved track and discusses the day ahead when the time trials were set to begin.
First Time Trials Records on Brick

The attached articles report on the results of the first time trials that took place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after the track was paved with brick. These appeared in the December 18, 1909, Indianapolis Star.
 
Time Trials: Day Two!

The attached articles report on the results of the second day of the first time trials that took place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after the track was paved with brick. These appeared in the December 19, 1909 Indianapolis Star.
 
Strang's "Giant" Fiat

The article in attachment IMSFiat121909 appeared in the December 19, 1909 Indianapolis Star. This was the same day coverage about day two of the first time tirals at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after the track was paved with bricks was published.

This is a collection of articles published during the Fall of 1909 concerning the work to pave the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with 3.2 million bricks. The great speed facility was tagged with the name, "The Brickyard" before the work was done.

Clubhouse Plans

This article first appeared in the December 19, 1909 Indianapolis Star as a sidebar to that day's coverage of the first time trials at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after the 2.5 mile oval was paved with 3.2 million bricks.
 

These are articles that concern the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's plans for the 1910 season. The Speedway considered a variety of events for the year from auto races to car shows to aviation events and more. In many instances they spoke with certainty that events would happen but then failed to deliver.

Planning 1910 Air Shows @ IMS

This article in attachment IMSaero122009 originally appeared in the December 17, 1909, Indianapolis Star and concerns Indianapolis Motor Speedway plans to stage aviation and gas balloon competition in 1910. The article also touches on plans for auto races.
 
Indianapolis Challenges New York

This article was published in the January 7, 1910 Indianapolis Star. I find the article interesting in that it further illustrates how Indianapolis Motor Speedway President and Founder Carl Fisher wanted to use the track as a multi-purpose facility. In addition to the obvious auto races but the vision of the track as America's capital of aviation.

One of the most unique chapters of Indianapolis Motor Speedway history was the June 1910 aviation show. Speedway President Carl Fisher loved leading edge technology, and he was almost as fascinated with aviation as race cars. This folder is packed with articles about that six day event which featured appearances by the Wright brothers and their star pilot, 21 year old Walter Brookins, who set a world altitude record at the meet. Carl Fisher got into the act, riding with Orville Wright in one of his pipe and stretched silk biplanes at dusk on one of the evenings. Fisher and Wright, fully exposed to the elements, laid on their stomachs, the Speedway president white-knuckling the metal pipe structure.

Fashion for Women Aviators

This article is a departure from the norm at First Super Speedway. Published on December 17, 1909 in the Indianapolis Star the article discusses the introduction a line of women's "aerial attire" by Mrs. Joseph Curzon whose husband stored his Henri Farman-designed airplane at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
 
Speedways Develop Automobiles - Dickson

This article written by on of the National Motor Vehicle Company's top executives, George Dickson, was published in the January 9, 1910 Indianapolis Star. Dickson was an officer of the National company but I have yet to figure out how the corporation was organized.