Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1941 — Page 18
The Key fo Horsepower
Many race fans believe that the Sono Revol ions? they oh ghia fhe ighei ! i p. has bac own ey higher the revolutions per minute then know that 7000 is ie Place of the greater an engine’s horsepower. ultimate power. That might be true were it not After the motor has passed a cerfor “thermal efficiency.” tain total of revolutions, it begins to -Mechanics turn a motor at 5000/lose efficiency because of the time revolutions a minute getting 250|it takes for air and fuel to move horsepower. Then “the engine is|into a cylinder for this mixture to reved up to 7000 and the horsepower| explode. ‘Jumps to 300. Gunning it up to! Thatis called “thermal efficiency.”
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~ |Chet Deserves Cool in the Face of Death:-- That's W hat Makes Champions
All champion drivers have one|stretch. The wind whipped the common denominator—presence of| flames into his face and enveloped
A Big Break
‘Gasoline Alley’ Would Like to See Him Win
While thousands of eyes will be watching Wilbur. Shaw, Rex Mays and Mauri Rove tomorrow there will he others keeping tab on the fortunes of Chet Miller and pulling for him to win the 29th Speedway race. If the law of averages means anything at all in automobile racing this is “due.”
"| mind in the face of death. Tommy Milton, two-time winner
his body. Calmly he glanced behind him.
of the “500,” when asked: “What do| NO cars were following. He threw
you think about when you get in an
accident?” answered: “Getting out of it without getting h
During a Uniontown race Tommy’ s
the car into a skid, made a half turn and backed the car to a stop, the change in direction blowing the flames away from him. He walked to the track hospital. One of the most amazing stories
Roscoe Sarles, one of the most beloved pilots of all time. He lost a wheel avoiding another car and shot
off intc space over the 50-foot bank 8 he Kansas City speedway in 1922. When the car turned upside down in mid-air, Sarles twisted into an upright position and shut off the motor. Ordinarily that precaution would have saved his life, but the
landed, and he was killed. His mechanic lived to tell the story. Eddie Hearne, ‘who drove in the
first 500-mile race, went into a wild spin in a race at the Atlantic City speedway. A jamup. of drivers was right behind him, The old master, knowing from the feel of the car just how he was going to slide, calmly sat in his seat motioning the drivers to the topside away
motor Saughy fire in me home| of coolness during a crash is that of [car burst into flames when it|from where he would go.
Here are the polls that “Gasoline
Alley considers in his favor:
e has been dogged by bad for so long that it’s quite sible that Lady Luck will ride Sith him for the full 5000 miles. ; 2. He has the car with which to win. He is driving ‘a front-wheel drive Boyle ,Special, the same car with which Ted Horn took fourth place last year. The car is faster
this year, thanks to the administra-|
tions of Cotton Henning.
3.! Chet is - essentially a front-
wheel drive man. Racing men know that some drivers are natural frant-
wheel drivers, while others are out-|
standing on rear-wheel drive cars.
4. Miller, himself; has been touring
around the track for weeks at better than 120 miles an “hour ‘without pressing. In the past fifteen years Chet has been in the money five times, coming as close as third place in 1938, He has been involved in three accidents during the Memorial Day races, two-of them serious. The worst one was in 1939 when he was running in third place. He had already made his last pit stop and the two leaders had yet to make theirs, which put Chet in an excellent position to take first place when they zipped into the pit. Then his bad break came in the shape of the Bob Swanson-Floyd Roberts tangle. ' To avoid striking Swanson, who had been thrown to the track, Chet deliberately drove through risking his life to save a pal. That's one reason “Gasoline Alley” is agreed that if Chet does win this year “it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.”
5249 Miles for Meyer
Louis Meyer, who first started racing here in 1927, has driven 5249
miles in SOIIPELL; Hon,
a fence, |"
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"1. The grandstands aren’t. the only place from whichto watch, the race and leave. it to the younger generation to ferret out the vantage. points.
2. They’re off! That's the cry that makes thousands of breaths come faster, Holding down the accelera~ tors, the 33 drivers roar toward the southwest turn,. You can almost hear them now.
3. Bob Swanson escaped death when his car crashed’ and burst into flames here in 1939. But popular Bob lost his life in a Toledo race last . summer.
4, It’s a big | band that” parades in front of the grandstand on race day’ and the heat comes down and bounces off the bricks and : how the bandsters do get hot!
5. Long and lanky Rex" Mays folds. himself into a comfortable crouch for a cool , drink (soft) and a: quizzical glance alg. the - - pits. ;
Early Races Were Battles of Tires
The races of 1910, 1911 and 1913 were battles of tires instead of mae chines. Tires in the old days were made y of fabric instead of cord and they ; couldn’t stand up under the terrifie - heat. _ A During one early race, Don Herr, now an Indianapolis businessman, , was following Hughie Hughes in = ° Mercer in the back stretch. Sud- -
denly the tread came off Hughes" : right rear tire, and instead of fall= ing on the track it fell in Herr's lap. The tread was so hot that he ° barrie his hand throwing it on the | rac :
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