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Motor Age, Vol. LI, 51, No. 19, May 12, 1927
Eleven Front Wheelers Among Forty-One Entries For Indianapolis Sweepstakes May 30
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 9. – Forty-one entries, the largest list since 1919, including 11 front wheel drive cars and the only foreigner who dared brave the strangle-hold vice in which American racing experts hold speed- way supremacy, have been received for the Fifteenth International 500-mile race to be held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Monday, May 30, it was announced here after the lists were closed for this year’s contest.
George Fernic, a Roumanian, will drive a French Bugatti. It was the last entry received, coming by cable from the Speedway’s Paris office. Fernic, with his car, sailed from Europe May 7.
The list of entrants also includes three previous winners, Tommy Mil- ton, only two time winner who has built a new car but may assign another driver, Frank Lockhart, who recently traveled 171 miles an hour in the car he will pilot here, and Peter De Paolo, who holds the track record of 101.13 miles an hour for five hundred miles. The list of entrants appears below:
