Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1916 — DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES IN HOT RACE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES IN HOT RACE

Indiana's most famous race driver is probably John Aitken, who is lamed for his many victories and also for being successful manager of ■way Race May 30th that is worrying Aitken. He is in perfect training for this gruelling race when he will drive a Peugeot. The thing that bothers Aitken is his efforts to be neutral. He was in racing teams. It is not the 300 miles in the next Indianapolis Motor SpeedEurope at the time the war broke out studying the construction of various foreign built racing cars and getting pointers from his European comscheduled to share one of the garages at the Speedway with Rene Thomas, Frenchman, who has been given Military furlough to come to America and petitors. At that time he hurried back to the States. Now then he is race at Indianapolis, and Aitken is wondering if this would be strictly neutral. Both Aitken and Thomas will drive Peugeot cars in this year’s event, which it is freely predicted will overshadow all preceding Indianapolis races.