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New Orelans Mardi Gras Speed Carnival 1911

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  1. gerard.hansen

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    #1 gerard.hansen, Jan 5, 2008
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    Any one know anything about this event. Other than the IMSA races in the early 90's I didn't know that any races were ever held in New Orleans.
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    #2 robbiepoupart, Jan 6, 2008
    I think this is the event that was run on the old runways at Alvin Calender Airfield. Way back in the day they ran a Grand Prix race there for like one or two years.
     
  3. gerard.hansen

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    #3 gerard.hansen, Jan 6, 2008
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    I Googled Lewis Strang and Harry Endicott.

    Lewis Strang (1887 Atlanta, Georgia – 20 July 1911 Blue River, Wisconsin) was an American racecar driver. Strang was pole sitter for the inaugural "500". He was killed in a testing accident, becoming the first Indy 500 veteran to die.


    Harry Endicott (1883 Montgomery, Indiana – 5 September 1913 Jackson, Michigan) was an American racecar driver. He was the brother of fellow "500" participant Bill Endicott. Endicott was killed in a dirt oval practice crash.


    I don't know if the airfield was there in 1911. Could there have been a race at the Fairgrounds? It looks like it was a mile track.
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    Yeah, Gerard, I think you are right. If I'm not mistaken, Alvin Callender Field came to be around 1940 or 1941.

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    #6 gerard.hansen, May 29, 2014
    With IndyCar coming to NOLA next year, I thought I would give this thread a bump. The race a NOLA is not the first. The Fairgrounds hosted auto races before the Indy 500!
     
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    #7 Craigy, May 30, 2014
    Very cool.
     
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    #8 JSinNOLA, May 30, 2014
    Nice find!
     
  9. rardoin

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    #9 rardoin, May 30, 2014
    Gerard, is the Indycar race a certainty?
     
  10. gerard.hansen

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    #10 gerard.hansen, May 30, 2014
    The Governor held a press confrence earlier in the month and officials from IndyCar and Andretti Autosport were there. There is a House Bill that has to be passed in Baton Rouge for the funding to improve the track. That would be the only hang up, so I would say it is a good bet that there will be an IndyCar race at NOLA.
    It is not yet on the schedule but that won't come out until latter this year.
     

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