BIG MOTORFEST AT MARDI GRAS.
Los Angeles Times
Jan 10, 1909
SPECIAL TRAINS
WILL CARRY AUTO CROWDS; Dust to Be Laid on Fast Course and World Records Should Be Endangered; Best Drivers Will Gatherat
New Orleans
See http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9502E1D91738E033A25754C0A9649C946897D6CF&oref=slogin
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1909
(no date):
Joan Newton Cuneo beats the famous driver Ralph DaPalma in a road race in New Orleans. Shortly after
that, the American Automobile Association bans women from racing
http://local.aaca.org/junior/mileposts/1909.htm
1909
(no date)
Ralph DePalma set the wourld automobile speed record -- drove 50 times around a one mile dirt track at
a rate of 60 miles per hour.
http://books.google.com/books?id=lOSvzYLs3tMC&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=%22new+orleans+in+1909%22&source=web&ots=AFatEcYDxZ&sig=XDH7iQeCYY-Rbm_OhhXJqx09GTk&hl=en
Indianapolis
500 race track opens in 1909
