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Elliot F. Shepard Jr. in the #6 Hotchkiss
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Elliot F. Shepard Jr., a 30-year-old American and William K. Vanderbilt Jr.’s cousin, drove the most powerful car in the race, a French 130-hp French Hotchkiss. Shepard did not realize that he would soon become the center of controversy for the 1906 race.

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