1909 Wheatley Sweepstakes
Won by Ray Harroun, winner of the 1911 Indy 500 Race
Location: Nassau County, Long Island, New York
Date: October 30, 1909
During the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race, two other sweepstakes races (the Massapequa Sweepstakes and the Wheatley Hills Sweepstakes ) were run simultaneously for commercially available stock cars. The Wheatley Sweepstakes had only four entrants for the "sub-class 3" stock cars with engines 231 to 300 cubic inches. The winner received a prize of $1,000.
Deep and rich automotive details here. This whole series could easily be a part of the increasingly popular luxury auto…