<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Oldfield" class="extiw" title="en:Barney Oldfield">en:Barney Oldfield</a> and a skidding Jim Parsons, Venice, Calif., March 17, 1915. Barney won the race, a 300-mile event, which was run on a dirt track, although the turns were reinforced with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_Track_Racing" class="extiw" title="en:Board Track Racing">en:Board Track Racing</a>.
Photo courtesy of Wayne Carroll Petersen
1915-03-17
Originally from <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.rumbledrome.com/barneyracer.html">[1]</a>