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Speed Madness at Daytona

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 3, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 17.

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Speed Madness at Daytona

The most rapid traveling that was ever essayed by any human invention which could carry people was by Barney Oldfield at Daytona, Florida, recently when he drove his two hundred horse-power motor-car a mile in 27.23 seconds, or at the rate of 131.7 miles per hour. The New York World truly characterizes it as “an exhibition of speed madness, a perilous undertaking in folly, destitute of practical importance, distinguished only by the thrill and the new figures.”