Fast Start
The first Daytona race: The Florida Speed Carnival, 1902
Race surface Beach
Distance One mile
First racer R.W. Olds in Bullet
Olds’ time 57 seconds
Spectators 50
Source: American Heritage magazine (November 1987)
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