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Rogue Leader
10-03-04, 06:33 PM
Anyone who lives on or near Long Island, pick up today's Newsday. On the cover of the LI Life section is an entire history of the first Vanderbilt Cup races (i unfortunately didn't notice any mention of the fact the Cup is still in use by ChampCar), here on Long Island where they started. Good reading!
Ziggy
10-03-04, 07:03 PM
There is also a book
trish
10-03-04, 07:20 PM
http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/longislandlife/ny-lfrace1004,0,7061051.story?coll=ny-lilife-headlines
pchall
10-03-04, 08:22 PM
http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/longislandlife/ny-lfrace1004,0,7061051.story?coll=ny-lilife-headlines


Be sure check out the photo gallery. 20+ pictures of what early road racing was like.
Railbird
10-03-04, 08:39 PM
Chain your dogs and lock up your fowl (http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/vand.htm)

Milwaukee's finest (http://www.rumbledrome.com/milwvand.html)

Roosevelt Raceway (http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/vand2.htm)

And, as Zig said, lotsa books out there.

The history of motorsports should be of great value to any racefan.
Rogue Leader
10-03-04, 10:07 PM
Its weird I travel these roads daily to and from work... I'm 4 miles south of Roosevelt Raceway too (which was a horse racing track up till it's demise, its 2 malls and business complexes now). I mentioned in another thread that would be the only place around here with roads suitable for setting up a decent and safe race course. However based around the airfields etc is Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin and I doubt they would like their roads taken up for a week by race cars :(

Its pretty sad, for a place with such a strong and important racing history, racing is pretty dead here. Rarely ever gets more than a paragraph in the sports secton if we were lucky, and very few people even know Roosevelt raceway was a car track first, or that the Vanderbilt cup races started on the very roads we travel daily.
Steve99
10-04-04, 02:27 PM
St. Petersburg residents take note:

Residents fumed when signs were posted along the course urging them to "chain your dogs and lock up your fowl." Some reacted by scattering bent nails on parts of the course.

Just kidding of course. :D

Some of the original paved roads still exist: http://www.nycroads.com/history/motor/
pchall
10-04-04, 03:31 PM
St. Petersburg residents take note:


Just kidding of course. :D

Some of the original paved roads still exist: http://www.nycroads.com/history/motor/


Kidding?

I could weld up a mess of caltrops for you in an afternoon. :D