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Show TEN WINNERS IN AUTO RACE ONJFLRESTONES Tor Ninth Time Gum-Dipped Tires Lend in ImL'nnnpIls Speedway Classic ! Firestone Pull-Size Gum-Dipped B.-'IIon tires r,-vn mad.e a remarkable remark-able showing in the Indianapolis Speedway ClaCTic on Deccfation Day. when all ten winners participating "in .'-he money" rode on these de-penda'ble de-penda'ble tiros. This is the second time balloon tires were used in the ip.Veat Speed-v.ay Speed-v.ay event, the first being last year when Peter De.paolo on Firestone Full-Size Oi.m-DiHppcd Balloons made a new world's record at an average 'Teed of 101.13-miles per hour. Smaller .mote's of 91 cubic inch Displacement, compared to 122 cubic inches in 1925, combined with rainy weather and a slippery track, flowed flow-ed up the time of the 1926 winner .rank Lockhart, who won this year's race at 95.88 miles per hour. This year's .gruelling battle of tires was called at the end of 402 miles because of the downpour of 'am. Lockhart, who captured the grand -prize, drove the full distance ""."hout a sin.;le tire change and "as all set to go the entire 500 miles on the same set of tires. It is a noteworthy fact, too, that the 1926 Indianapolis race was the n.nt-h on the Hoosiar Speedway i which Firestone Gum-dipped Tires carried the winners to victory. The terrific battle of tires brings oiut the eleetiveness of Gum-Dipping, 'he exclusive progress employed by he Firestone Company, which builds extra strength and endurance into "ie cord fabric by impregnating and aat.urat.;ng every fiber of every cord w.t h rubber. This special process minimize f' l' !ion and heat, keeping the tire-comparatively tire-comparatively cool under a contin-nous contin-nous racing strain. ' The performance of Firestone Mmg it Indianapolis this year certainlvl was ifmarkal.le when the terrlfie speed at which the cars traveled over the 15-year-old rough brick track is taken into consideration. |