Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1915 — Reason Resta Lost. [ARTICLE]

Reason Resta Lost.

How Dario Resta lost the 1915 Indianapolis 500-mile race is a story that remained for a rail bird, sitting near the scene of Resta’s skid on the northwest turn of the speedway near the end of the contest, to tell. According to the rail bird, Resta and DePalma’were running neck and neck, when a rabbit, scared from his hiding place in the speedway’s tall grass, essayed to cross the track in pursuit of safety. Resta did not see the animal and struck it a glancing blow with his front wheel, starting him on the skid that landed him against the retaining wall, and loosened his steering connections so that he had to make a pit stop and was-un-able to drive at top speed afterward. Bunny escaped unhurt.