Show laboratory TACTICS APPLIED PLIED br COOPER TO WIN BIG RACK compiles card index records and charts of 0 rival car and driver performances for mances in all important races of past veteran pilot of studebaker mystery car launches scientific fie attack to win mile race at indianapolis idanah Ida indianapolis nap olis ind may ay 3 30 0 earl cooper will try to win tho the mile international race at the speedway here on may 30 with the aid ol of a card index its the newest thing in scientific automobile racing yes boys times have changed back in the old sizzling slam bang hit or miss days the racers were content to step on er to the limit and pray that lady luck was wag doing her stuff those were the days of yesteryear when cooper barney oldfield tom rooney gil anderson and darlo dario resta were lifting em out of their seats in the grandstand will try strategic attack cooper copped firsts on tho the dirt tracks and stood high in the money places in many of the fastest meets ir ID the country during the past fourteen years but he announced today hes going after the coming speedway classic with new scientific met 1 hods cods of 0 strategic attack it was revealed today that cooper who Is of 0 the studious mcc mechanical hanibal type of racer lias has been keeping a de tailed series ot of charts blue prints scientific data and card index re 1 cords tor for some gome time ills ald aid Reeves dutton who Is of the older school of 0 been quietly gather ing ine statistical dope with the motor of his studebaker special adjusted too turn over at exactly rpm cooper was breaking the speed laws out at tho the brick speedway today with dutton scrutinizing the cars behavior from a secret vantage point on the south curve tt duts side were the detailed records on each track in the country which each ot of tile the 31 speedway contestants te had made biado mechanical dolce do plo charted records disclosed lap per lap flights of speed attained according to piston timing of motors flywheel adjustments to a thousandth of an inch bearing their number and location in every part dart ot of car change in carburetor gettins set tins the weather affects the speed of a racing car tor for it is of course as as a tine fine watch and so cooper has records of temperature and humidity for lap tryouts under all conditions and on all tracks thus lis alls records of different speeds per hour at various revolutions per minute are vo voluminous lummous because these racing motors are so tiny that they must keep up to a certain speed to get any noticeable power scientific track reports other records noted at various leading tracks about the auntry which cooper is studying these days day in tuning up his robin egg blue studebaker special with scientific experiments contain data on number of tires used in various races carburetor settings gear ratios ios spark plug changes life ot of tires number of stops at pit and why timing per lap who turned fastest lap coopers fastest lap per race and adjustments made in race 1 I tune up the car and cooper tries lt out explained dutton today suppose it acts 0 IC K but somebody else Is getting 10 miles per hour greater out of his car with ill the same adjustments as shown in our records then we take the studebaker special back to the shop to experiment and see why weer not getting better time on the clock speedway ills laboratory any successful racer could win all races it if he could crowd his car to the limit and know it would do the distances without mechanical trouble cooper is making a scientific laboratory out of the speedway epe edway while tuning up for the may 30 event while cooper refuses to disclose the findings of his accumulations ot of racing data veteran dockers clockers who are watching the tryouts say he will attract attention in the coming motor motoi derby ile he has something up his sleeve they insist |