Word: raceways
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...your comments on the Vanderbilt Cup motor race (TIME, Oct. 19) you implied that the reason the U. S. cars were so soundly beaten was that they were not adapted to the Roosevelt Raceway type of circuit. This opinion, widely held, is only partly right. It is true that the Europeans, with their multiple speed, quick-shifting gearboxes and tremendous brakes had a great advantage, but it is equally certain that they could trounce any of our cars on any kind of a course...
First prize in last week's race in addition to a cup donated by young George Vanderbilt, whose Cousin William K. put up the first one, was $20,000. The course was 75 times around the brand new pretzel-shaped Roosevelt Raceway (TIME, Sept. 28). To watch the race, lured by publicity which stressed the possibility that it might produce several fatalities, went a crowd of 50,000, including a list of boxholders, at $27.50 per person, which read like a carefully abridged social register...
...Roosevelt Raceway was no puzzle to Europe's aristocratic race drivers, they were a vexing riddle to Roosevelt Race way. Accustomed to building up bogus socialites, the Raceway's energetic press agents betrayed their lack of practice in dealing with real ones by describing Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, onetime Member of Parliament and Aide-de-camp to the late George V, with redundant emphasis, as "Lord" Earl Howe. Inheritor of a fabulous for tune for which a legal dispute that is still going on was sufficiently sensational a century ago to inspire Charles Dickens...
...auto racing before the War, and next month's race, for which the trophy was donated by his 22-year-old cousin George (brother of Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt) will be the road. The original Vanderbilt Cup racecourse was over Long Island's oiled dirt roads. Roosevelt Raceway is an extraordinary establishment conceived by the first U. S. winner (1908) of the old Vanderbilt Cup race. Major George Robertson. After the War Major Robertson admired Italy's Monza course near Milan, thought a similar course near New York City might be a profitable venture. Three years...
Object of Roosevelt Raceway, like the Monza course, is to combine the advantages of road-racing (tests for automobile motors, excitement for spectators) with the advantages of track-racing (high speed, visibility for crowds). Roosevelt Raceway's four-mile track has a three-quarter mile straightaway thanked by grandstands. The other three and a quarter miles, lying just beyond the straightaway, are coiled into three major loops, shaped like the profile of a Parker House roll. The track winds through 16 turns all within clear view of the grandstand crowd. Most elaborate plant of its kind in the world...