1900 Newport Races
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Dec 03 2024
Providence Journal: “Vanderbilt and friends competed on Middletown track at the dawn of auto racing”
George Kennedy wrote this 2014 article on William K. Vanderbilt Jr. in the Providence Journal. (0 comments)
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Aug 10 2011
VanderbiltCupRaces Exclusive: The 1900 Newport Automobile Races & the First Vanderbilt Cup Trophy
The first major race in which William K. Vanderbilt Jr. competed was held in September 1900 in Newport, Rhode Island. It was also at this race where the first William K.Vanderbilt Jr. cup was given to a winner of an automobile race...four years before the Long Island Vanderbilt Cup Races. (6 comments)
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Sep 02 2010
Willie K.‘s Cars #1: The 1900 23-HP Daimler “White Ghost”
From 1900 to 1905, William K. Vanderbilt , Jr was a pioneering race car driver, competing succesfully in the United States and Europe. Willie's K's racing career and his racing cars will be documented in a new VanderbiltCupRaces.com series "Willie K.'s Cars". (5 comments)
