The Vanderbilt Cup was the first major trophy in American auto racing. An international event, it was founded by William Kissam Vanderbilt II in 1904 and...
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for Women Vanderbilt Cup Vanderbilt Gallery (American Fine Arts Society) Vanderbilt Clinic (Presbyterian Hospital) Vanderbilt Museum Vanderbilt University...
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The 1936 Vanderbilt Cup (formally known as I George Vanderbilt Cup) was a Championship Car race that was held on October 12, 1936 at Roosevelt Raceway...
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Kissam Vanderbilt II (October 26, 1878 – January 8, 1944) was an American motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family...
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Vanderbilt may refer to: Vanderbilt (surname) Vanderbilt family In the United States: Vanderbilt, California, a former gold-mining town Vanderbilt, Michigan...
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Long Island Motor Parkway (redirect from Vanderbilt Parkway)
William Kissam Vanderbilt II, the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, was an auto-racing enthusiast and created the Vanderbilt Cup, the first major...
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"pushcar" race in Venice, Los Angeles. The film was shot during the Junior Vanderbilt Cup, an actual race with Chaplin and Lehrman improvising gags in front of...
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Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE (July 6, 1884 – July 4, 1970) was an American railroad executive, a champion yachtsman, an innovator and champion player...
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pandemic. Inspired by the Gordon Bennett Cup and Circuit des Ardennes races he had competed in, William Kissam Vanderbilt II founded a series of road races in...
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1906 Vanderbilt Cup was a motor race held on a 29.7 mile street circuit on Long Island, New York on October 6, 1906. Just like the 1906 Vanderbilt Elimination...
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and 1937, George Vanderbilt sponsored a renewal of auto races for the Vanderbilt Cup, founded by his uncle, William Kissam Vanderbilt II, in 1904. During...
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sanctioned its first race, the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup held on Long Island, New York. It is unclear as to why William K. Vanderbilt had AAA sanction his race as...
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Tazio Nuvolari Film of Tazio Nuvolari winning the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Races (VanderbiltCupRaces.com) The Golden Age by Leif Snellman Archived 3 January...
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racing victories in 1936 and 1937, in addition to the AAA-sanctioned Vanderbilt Cup in the U.S, made him popular not only in Germany. He won the European...
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Tom Cooper (cyclist) (section Vanderbilt Cup career)
achieved on the beach at Atlantic City. Although Cooper never raced in the Vanderbilt Cup, he did work with the American Matheson team in 1905 and 1906, and was...
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Jarred Jakobi Vanderbilt (born April 3, 1999) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association...
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American open-wheel car racing (section Vanderbilt Cup)
Championship car racing series winners since 1909. The 1916, 1936 and 1937 Vanderbilt Cup races were included in the national championship. The 1909–1915 races...
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executive director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation contacted the Vanderbilt Cup Races website (after a post on Charles Addams' love of racing and vintage...
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United States until abbreviated by the outbreak of World War I. The Vanderbilt Cup and the American Grand Prize were held again after a year’s abeyance...
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on Long Island, New York. Initially created as a venue for the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup auto race, it was converted to a ½-mile harness racing facility (the...
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abandoned after four laps. Clément finished second at the 1904 I.W.K. Vanderbilt Cup Race on Long Island on 8 October 1904. He led lap 8 of the ten lap race...
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Bernd Rosemeyer at the American Automobile Association (AAA) sanctioned Vanderbilt Cup in Long Island, New York in the United States. Seaman improved further...
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Resta was the winner of the 1916 Indianapolis 500, as well as the Vanderbilt Cup in 1915 and 1916. Resta was born in Faenza, Italy. His family moved...
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transmission packed up entirely. Tracy did better for the company at the Vanderbilt Cup, placing third.: 1208 A 90 hp (67 kW), 16.2-litre (990 cu in) F-head...
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original on 2012-06-22. Retrieved 2012-05-27. "Vanderbilt Cup Races - Car Stories Renault#10(1905)". Vanderbilt Cup Races. "First Grand Prix a true test of endurance"...
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including Nazzaro, Cagno and Louis Wagner, had entered the American Vanderbilt Cup race in October. In response, an elimination race was organised beforehand...
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Oldfield also finished second in two major road races that year, the Vanderbilt Cup and the Corona 300. In 1915 he won the Venice, California 300 road race...
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Westchester County, New York. In 1904, William Kissam Vanderbilt II began hosting the Vanderbilt Cup, held on a 25-mile (40 km) circuit of local dirt roads...
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record of a chequered flag being used to end a race was from the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup race held in Long Island, New York. There is a persistent urban legend...
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Howard (26 May 2018). "Correcting the Vanderbilt Cup Race Record of Washington Augustus Roebling II". Vanderbilt Cup Races. Retrieved 10 October 2022. Angermiller...
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