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The Fairmount Park Motor Races, 1908-1911
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The Fairmount Park Motor Races, 1908-1911

by Michael J. Seneca

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0786445920
ISBN-13 9780786445929
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Apr 19th, 2010
Print length 238 Pages
Weight 413 grams
Dimensions 25.40 x 17.80 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification: History of the Americas 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Social & cultural history Car racing
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The Fairmount Park Motor Races were run on an eight-mile course in Philadelphia's West Fairmount Park. This book discusses the proposal to have a race in Fairmount Park and the reasons why Philadelphia, and the park in particular, was such an unlikely place.

For four years in the early 1900s, the Fairmount Park Motor Races were run on an eight-mile course in Philadelphia''s West Fairmount Park. They drew half a million spectators the first year but surprisingly have largely been overlooked as part of automobile racing history. There were never any serious injuries and not a single death but after four years the event was banned, with safety concerns cited.

Both the on-track action and the off-track events that affected the races are described as are the successful crusade to stop the races and the attempts to revive it in the years following.

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