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Show FORTUNE EXPENDED IS Mill SPEE0W1 Every Precaution Is Taken to Make Indianapolis Track Perfectly Safe. Special to The Trihune. INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEED-WAY, SPEED-WAY, Sept. 11. Gold, as water, to bo poured 'onto tho Indianapolis motor speedway. Tho management has decided de-cided to spend 150,000 more on the famous fa-mous track, that has already cost over $500,000 to date. One hundred thousand thou-sand dollars of this amount will g to making the track a refect cue, as a new surface will have U be laid and this will be done in a Ihurougli manner before -ii-is will again be i Towed to circle the track. With u refect, surface sur-face the driver will iot h i'o a dillicult task in covering1 long races and in this manner re.I'ic.j the possibilil ' of accident. acci-dent. Another schemo that will be tried will be placing a sand i-ushion aruund the outside of the track as well as along the inside. This will bo a strip of sand fifty feet in width, so I hat if a car should in any manner lose the course it will be impeded in the sand and in this way it will be impossible for tho cars to reach the fence. A low guard rail will run around I lie entire course from the uulsidc while the fences will be placed fifty feel back of the guard rail and on the extreme edge of the sand cushion. Spectators will be perfectly per-fectly safe outside of this danger .one. Two additional grand stands will also be built, so as to aecenunodate every one. as the large crmvu of close to forlv thousand on Saturday, the 21st. overflowed Ihc sr.indb that were callable ca-llable of seating Ji.iiOO. These improvements will start al once and it is calculated that the track will be ready by October 1. A special series of rules aie being drafted by I ho speedway management to govern the raceH on ti. speedway course. All events of over 10U miles in distance must bo driven in the form of relays. As soon as a. driver covers 100 miles the signal system vmI! bo used as the car approaches the tape, a number will be suspended from a wire running over the track, and the driver will know by this number that h?. is called from (he track and i lie next time around he will stop al the pit, when a now driver will be substituted. The driver who lias finished the first hundred miles will then be submitted o a me heal examination exami-nation trt determine wheth' r or not he is fit to take up the race when the sup-stitute sup-stitute is signalled at the end of the next J00 miles. While the driver is being changed the technical committee will examine the tires of the machine to see if t.hev are til for additional service, ser-vice, though' in the last events run at the speedway it proved that the course is not very hard on tires. In addition to the new slands. new track surface as well as the sand cushion, an elaborate sore lmnrd system sys-tem will be installed that will be in keeping with the timing device which was so successfully operated when I he greatest race meet in the world was j run. August 19, 20 ami 21. A tunnel to permit cars to nass under the track during dur-ing the time that the races are being run is also to be built, while a suspension suspen-sion bridge will be built for tho same purpose. Aitkons'' time for the first 100 miles of 5U:-11 n-10 proved the time to be the fastest; ever made on track or road, and with a perfect surface, as f 'to co"'det"d track will possess, all recodp: will sure.. Iv fall for the entire distance. The drivers will .be given fifteen days of uninterrupted practice over the course so as to become familiar with it. and a meet surpassing in every detail the first grenl opening will be presented. |
