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1905 Race Statistics

Year of Race: 1905
Grandstand Location: Mineola, Long Island
Date of Race: Saturday, October 14
Race Start Time: 6:00 am
Number Cars Starting: 19
Countries Represented: USA, Germany, Italy, France
Winning Driver: Victor Hemery
Make of Winning Racer: Darracq
Representing: France
MPH of Winning Racer: 61.4
Length of Course (Miles): 28.3
Length of Public Roads in Course (Miles): 28.3
Length of Long Island Motor Pkwy in Course (Miles): 0
Number of Laps: 10
Distance of Course (Miles): 283.0
Time (Hr:Min:Sec): 4:38:08
Estimated Attendance: 100,000

1905 Race Summary -->

1905

  • 1904 Success leads to Second Vanderbilt Cup Race
  • Entrants for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
  • Start of the 1905 Race in Mineola
  • Action During the 1905 Race
  • Lancia Leads Heath and Hemery
  • The 1905 Finish
  • Hemery and the Darracq Win for France
  • 1905 Race Statistics
  • 1905 Race Summary

Years

  • 1904
  • 1905
  • 1906
  • 1907
  • 1908
  • 1909
  • 1910
  • 1911-1960

Feature

Book Cover Image

The 128-page book by Howard Kroplick, a researcher and lecturer on the races, contains rare images of the races from the archives of major museums, libraries and private collectors. The book Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island will be available from Arcadia Publishing in March 2008.

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Related Images

1905 VCR Website Hemery and mechanician 1905 VCR Website #2 American Elimination 1905 VCR Website Keene at grandstand 1905 VCR Website #16 Louis Chevrolet at Guinea Woods Turn 1906 VCR Website Joe Tracy Provides a Ride for Ada Patterson 1905 VCR Website #18 at the Start 1905 VCR Website Map 1905 VCR Website #7 at Krug's Corner 1905 VCR Website #18 Darracq at Guinea Woods Turn 1905 VCR Website #7 Locomobile & #4 Fiat at the Finish 1905 VCR Website Louis Chevrolet at the Wheel 1905 VCR Website Crowds Storms Lancia
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