Rickenbacker Versus Beachey

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.

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