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Sitting Still or Going Fast. Despite getting a brighter spotlight, race cars make up a small percentage of classic-car sales. The collector-car insurer Hagerty expects racers to make up about 0.5 ...
In 1906, the Glidden Tours were the first motor race to use a checkered flag to indicate the end of the race: Sidney Walden divided the courses into sections; the time check at the end of each section was performed by race officials called "checkers." These checkers used checkered flags to identify themselves. [3]
The Checkered Flag: 1926 The Speed Classic: 1928 Speedway: 1929 Drama Silent film about a father and son in Indianapolis. Burning Up: 1930 Drama First talkie about auto racers. Speed: 1930 The Racing Strain: 1932 Drama A driver who drinks tries to turn around his life. The Crowd Roars: 1932 Drama Open wheel Motor racing saga featuring James ...
[113] [61] The three-day event was held from February 5 to 7. [114] The 15-year-old Gordon was the youngest driver and one of eleven Americans in the field. [115] Garry Rush won the main event, while Gordon came in 12th. [116] In December 1988, Kiwi car owner John Rae of Taranaki invited Gordon to compete in a series of races in New Zealand. [117]
The pre-Borg-Warner Indianapolis 500 winner's trophy awarded to Ray Keech in 1929 Detail of the image of a man on the top of the Borg-Warner Trophy. Because this man is depicted naked, after the traditional depiction of athletes in ancient Greek art, the trophy is most often photographed at an angle so that the man's arm blocks the view of the figure's genitalia.
Derives from green flag (start) to checkered flag (finish). Instituted largely in the late 1970s, with the 1979 Daytona 500 being the first major 500-mile race with live, flag-to-flag coverage. flying lap A lap, usually in qualifying, started by a competitor at optimum speed, as opposed to a lap from a standing start. flying start
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At a slowed pace, and running low on fuel, [9] [16] Castroneves, with the lapped car of Dario Franchitti immediately behind him (in a car painted nearly identical to Tracy's) [19] took the checkered flag as the winner. Tracy and Giaffone completed an additional lap, and were scored by the computer unofficially as second (82.8341 seconds behind ...