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Show iat Motor Speedway to 3e Ready at an Early Date ors are now at work on the peedwav project in the foot-r foot-r Los Angelou, and the great in" arena will be ready lor raWnc meet on Kcbruarv 22 iiis is the word brounht from i bv returning automobile men e looked -over tho. plans and interested in the projeet. ork of surveving tho 200-acre 3 beptin last week, and eon-work eon-work will begin at soon as icers set the stakes. The work .roseeuted with all energy and ig'will be in readiness for the of the Pacific coast next year, entire Pacific coast is to be lated on taking the initiative ne a big racing field in the vs A. D. Plughoff, general of J. W. Leavitt & Co. f the opening races on the In-s In-s Speedway, and I have never i the tremendous crowds which nt attracted to the city. The emorial day race at Indianapolis n that city invaluable public-ver public-ver the world. The Speedway itown has made that city unl-known. unl-known. Automobile racing in interest for the American jw than at any other time in )ry of the sport. The Speed-tliis Speed-tliis coast will attract visitors over the nation and make the actor in the racing world, riling to P. H. Greer of Greer company, the advent of the v holds" a deep significance. ! Greer is a member of tho Society of 'Automobile Engineers and he regards tho speedway races of America as of i the utmost importance iu the devolop- 'mcnt of the automobile. ''For the last five years I have never missed the big races at Indianapolis each year," says Greer. "Tho speort-way speort-way events interest me not alono from the speed standpoint, but because they represent the contest between the most highly efficient automobile motors that can be made. Racing is tho rruciblo in which tho modern automobile has been refined. Better steels, stronger alloys, more efficient lubrication systems, sys-tems, more reliable ignition, tougher tires all these improvements and scores of others have come directly as the result of the test of racing. ''With 300-cubic inch motors, manufacturers man-ufacturers succeeded in developing .speeds up to 115 miles an hour and better. Next year the speedway regulations regu-lations will cut the size of the motors to 187 cubic inches, because the larger cars are too fast. Invention genius will be concentrated in an effort to get higher efficiency from a given piston displacement. What, they learn in doing this will be reflected in the motor cars of coming seasons. "The long continued high, speed of tho racing events teaches much needed lessons. The California motorist who can take his car out on the perfect boulevards and drive for hours at high speed can do so because of the lessons learned on the speedways.", . |