Italian Auto Ace Wins Celebrated Road Race Classic
Italian Auto Ace Wins Celebrated Road Race Classic
Clip: 345632_1_1
Year Shot: 1936
(Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1517
Original Film: 008-501-01
HD: N/A
Location: WESTBURY, N.Y.
Timecode: 00:41:14 - 00:43:10
Jumpy, shaky dark in contrast and imagery Europe's foremost daredevil of the road. Tazio Nuvolari, averages the terrific speed of sixty-six miles an hour on the turning, twisting course of the new Roosevelt Raceway as he leads forty-five American and foreign speedsters to the finish line in a grinding, thrilling three hundred mile battle for the Vanderbilt Cup. Sixty thousand racing fans jam the stands, with an estimated 150,000 persons seeing the great classic. Four and a half hours, the drivers push their roaring machines around the track through a maze of dangerous loops and hurtling down the straightaway. Motion pictures made thirty years ago show the thrills of the race of 1906.