Show RACING WITH DEATH One of the most remarkable achieve achievements achievements ments recorded was the fe feat t of Nazar Nazarro azar ro the Italian who won the grand prize on the Dieppe course in France over the fastest drivers of all nations The course Is miles In length and he made the ten laps In 6 hours 46 41 minutes and 33 seconds or an average speed for the entire six hours of miles per hour The fastest average heretofore on the saine same course was six miles mile Compared with the speed of railroad trains the performance of this single machine on an open roadway without the advantage of rail supports seems almost Incredible Few trains attain that maximum even cven for short dis distances distances no train has a schedule ap pr this speed limit for an any I length of time and no regular train has hase e ever r attempted to maintain seventy miles over such a distance as Nazarro traveled More than thirty machines started In Inthe inthe the race but only six finished The conditions imposed included a limited amount of gasoline on which the driver drivel was compelled to complete the course or 01 retire Nazarro not only finished with his gasoline supply unexhausted but he made the last lap in the fastest time of his ten going the miles at the rate of 49 seconds to the mlle mile or about 74 miles an hour or over feet a second through the forty seven seen miles While the achievement of the machine Is astonishing it Is not as remarkable as the endurance and nerve or of the man who drove it IL Anybody who has ridden in an automobile at fifty miles an hour on a straightaway road knows that It Itis itis is no job for a timid man but Nazarro went his gate for fot over six hours with the possibility of death or dangerous Injury before him all the time and kept his nerve so completely that he finished taster faster than he began |