I am a long time fan and amateur historian of this great American classic. I must say: hats off to a fine job. I found your work very accurate and entertaining. My favorite was the mentioning of Cyrus Patschke as Harroun's relief driver. He has never gotten the credit he deserves for his efforts. An additional note: Patschke also relief drove for Marmon team mate, Joe Dawson, who finished 5th...the next year Dawson would go on to win on a National.

Interesting and fun in equal measure as usual

@MostlyRacing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words as ever David!

@davidjamesnoble3170

Жыл бұрын

@@MostlyRacing thank you for making the video 👍

“Later observers trying to make it more interesting, even though they don’t have all the facts…… Like the bible”. Spot on mate!

@MostlyRacing

Жыл бұрын

My attempt at humour. Hopefully no one takes it the wrong way

@jmac3480

8 ай бұрын

​@@MostlyRacingbecause the facts are in the Bible...

So cool seeing how the traditions of today were started with the very first race

One of the best parts of this was the refreshments menu! Where did you find a scan of that? Fantastic. Yes I'll have the Cigars, two for 25 cents please! 😂

@MostlyRacing

Жыл бұрын

Just something I saw on Twitter, their handle is next to the list. It's a fascinating window back to the past isn't it

It doesn't have anything to do with the race, but Fisher had a lot of trouble convincing people that the dangerous gasses used in the headlights wouldn't combust. The people who trusted his assurances that the manufacturing process would be safe, were treated to multiple fires and explosions over the next 3 years.

@MostlyRacing

2 күн бұрын

We're grateful for the race but he wasn't the best person who ever lived 😅

Update on 1907 and Nazzaro?

@MostlyRacing

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes So, I had scripted out a video from 1907-1914 because I was struggling to find any major details on smaller races other than the results. After I'd done this, I then discovered that L'Auto have had all their newspapers archived and they have SO much detail in them so I'm completely rewriting everything. The issue I'm having is I don't speak French! So I'm typing out pages and pages of these papers so I can just chuck them into a translator which is taking ages. I sometimes post some stuff from there on Twitter. I promise I am working on it and it's awesome there's someone actively looking forward to my next video so thank you

@noviranger239

Жыл бұрын

@@MostlyRacing I'm somewhat fluent in French so LMK if I can help!

@noviranger239

Жыл бұрын

​@@MostlyRacing I'm telling you - Nazzaro's 1907 might rival Senna's 1988, Larson's 2021, SVG's 2022, and Max's 2023.

Nothing unusual in that time to marry 20-30 yanger girl (if you can afford it).

408th subscriber

@MostlyRacing

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic by name, fantastic by nature. Thank you!!

@mr.fantastic172

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for making great videos