We have covered the first 1907 24 hr. Brighton Beach Race race earlier with some great images from the Peter Helck collection, and also a second post with Helck photos of the winners and their Thomas. Just recently Frank Rifenberg found these families photos and is sharing them with us. His grandfather Charles Rifenberg was the riding…
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1909 Brighton: The Winning Simplex. A painting from Peter Helck’s book Great Auto Races showing George Robertson and Al Poole on the way to winning the July 1909 Brighton Beach 24 hour race. Courtesy of the Helck family who have created the Artists webpage.
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This is a follow-up article with new information to add to last Monday’s July 31, 2017, post: “Bob Burman and the Blitzen Benz at Brighton Beach.” The earlier report contains photos of the first occasion where “Blitzen I” and “Blitzen II” were together at a race meet according to a Daimler Company historical accounting of the six 200…
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The last Brighton Beach 24 hour race we will cover is the final event of the 1909 season. It had been delayed from its original starting date in September because of bad weather. Smiling Ralph Mulford who had planned to get married on the weekend of October 15-16 had to shuffle his plans when the…
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A pair of images from the May 1910 Brighton Beach 24 hour event which we have covered earlier, this time showing action in the pits. Above is the Buick pit which back in the time sometimes referred to as the camp, because that is what it actually was, a place were the crew camped out. Note…
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According to this article above from the Motor Age, the track was ready to close but the Motor Racing Association came thru at the last moment and saved the racing action at Brighton. After two years the Brighton races had become very popular, as you can see the…
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Above is a second photo of Robertson and Lescault, the winners of the 1908 October 2-3 Brighton Beach 24 hour race in the 50 h.p. Simplex. Below is a Stearns which is a 30/60 h.p. car which was driven by Grosso, Marquis and Oldfield to a 6th place finish after covering 519 miles. Two interesting things…
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