Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Aquidneck Park

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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.

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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.

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  Dec 21 2009

  The 1901 Newport Automobile Races

  One of the most exciting American auto races in 1901 was the Newport Automobile Races organized by 23-year old William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and the National Auto Racing Association.