Abstract
Wealthy racers attempted to organize the sport around the road race. They were increasingly pushed onto enclosed tracks by the public backlash against their attempts to monopolize public roads for their amusements.
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See also Dick Punnett, Beach Racers: Daytona before NASCAR (Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2008).
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Clay McShane, Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), p. 183.
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Messer-Kruse, T. (2014). Seizing the Open Road. In: Tycoons, Scorchers, and Outlaws: The Class War That Shaped American Auto Racing. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137322517_4
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