You may have seen this iconic image of two men going head to head on a motordrome's steep angled boards. A few may even point out that it was taken at the Springfield Stadium Motordrome, but unfortunately it has been captioned incorrectly. It is in-fact a moment captured on the high-banked turns of the oval shaped Los Angeles Coliseum, America's first motordrome built by Jack Prince just prior to the construction of the Stadium track at Springfield in 1909. A result of an honest misidentification by the original source, the vast photo collection of Mr. A.F. Van Order. The error has been published countless times, myself included, with the wrong information, but hopefully my upcoming trip to Springfield will produce an equally triumphant photo of a hero or two blasting around the Springfield drome.

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