INDIANAPOLIS "500"
ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY
CORRECT TIME AND AVERAGE
(Received June 1, 8 a.m.)
INDIANAPOLIS, May 30.
Petillo was down to his last penny before luck broke for him on Thursday. He hammered over the rough brick track in tor 42min 22sec, at a record average speed of 106.24 m.p.h. Wilbur Shaw was second, and Bill Cummings, winner last year, third. Coming out of the treacherous northwest turn 32£ miles after the start Weatherly lost control when travelling at 110 miles an hour, hit the wall, and caromed down the track through the wooden fence, leaping end over end on to the grass in the field. The machine had already cost the .life of Johnny Hannon, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, in practice runs.
The time and average speed "given above are the correct official figures.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 9
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