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Winners of Races for Championship Cars, 1909-1919

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. . The George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., has a collection of photographs by Nathan Lazarnik that includes several taken at Indianapolis in 1911. Among them are the following: . . View of the main grandstands Wreck of Ted Tetzlaff's Lozier One of the two Blitzen-Benz cars Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp Posing for the pre-race portrait . .

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1911	Ralph Mulford National Champion
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Indianapolis. This postcard carries a postmark of July 21, 1911, so the racing scene is almost certainly from 1909 or 1910. The sign at the left in the photograph says: "Drivers Are Warned Against Driving Wrong Way on Track or Turning Around." The view is of the northwest turn, today's Turn 4.

Postcard, 1911

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Savannah, Ga., Nov. 27, 1911. Ralph Mulford wins the 300-mile Vanderbilt Cup Race in a Lozier. Postcard.

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Photo by Thomas Burnside from the Fall 1963 issue of Automobile Quarterly

Ray Harroun's Marmon Wasp photographed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Advertisement in Country Life in America Magazine, 1911

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Indianapolis, May 30, 1911. Front-row starters included Ralph DePalma (2), Harry Endicott (3) and Johnny Aitken (4). Pole-sitter Lewis Strang is obscured.

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway Photo

Second row starters included Louis Disbrow (5), Joe Jagersberger (8) and Will Jones (9).

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Indianapolis, May 30, 1911.