Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1919 — THREE NATIONS REPRESENTED ON ENGLISH SUNBEAM TEAM IN BIG INDIANAPOLIS RACE [ARTICLE]

THREE NATIONS REPRESENTED ON ENGLISH SUNBEAM TEAM IN BIG INDIANAPOLIS RACE

With the exception of the United States, every member of the Big Four among the allied nations In the recent world war is represented on the English Sunbeam team that will try to lift championship honors in the international 500-mlle Liberty Sweepstakes on the Indianapolis motor speedway, May 31st. Jean Chassagne, star driver of the British combination, and holder of the world’s hour record until it was recently wrested from him by Ralph De Palma, is a Frenchman, having served his government as an inspector of aviation motors throughout the late world conflict, - z j Dario Rests, winper of the 191« Indianapolis race and victor in the A. A- A. driving championship . the

same year, is an Italian, but made his home the greater part of hi* life in England and recently in the .United States. At the wheel of the second Sunbeam in the Indianapolis contest, he is considered even more formidable than Chassagne, due to his greater experience on the Hoosier track. ‘ J _ Louis Coatalen, relief driver of the Sunbeam team, is an Englishman of international fame, having designed the celebrated Sunbeam aviation motor that was the mainstay of British air supremacy during the late war. Coatalen has never driven before in professional competition, but holds a record of more than forty victories in amateur races on the famous speedway at Brookteods, England. ■ *