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  • Jan 28 2012

    George Robertson’s Last Drive

    After skipping the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race, the 1908 winner George Robertson was preparing for a triumphant return in the 1910 Race driving a Benz. His hopes for a repeat win and his future racing career were dashed with one of the strangest accidents in Vanderbilt Cup Race history.

The Races

The exciting Vanderbilt Cup Races attracted the best drivers and cars at the birth of automobile competition.

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    October 8, 1904

    The inaugural William K. Vanderbilt Jr. Cup Race in 1904 was the first major international road race in the United States. Although William K. Vanderbilt Jr. was only 26, he was heir…

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    George Robertson

    George Robertson was the first American to win a Vanderbilt Cup Race. He drove "old 16" Locmobile to victory in the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race, the first race to be held on the Long Island…

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    Alco #18 (1910)

    The Alco "Black Beast" was the first two-time winner of the Vanderbilt Cup Races. Driving by Harry Grant, this 100-hp Alco won the 1909 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island.

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