"The rest of the hot boys can
\ have their speed and burn up their
I rats short of the finish line but
I I'm going to set a pace of 110 miles
| an hour and follow it to the end,"
! Cummings said. "That ought io be
I good enough not only to win bc.t to
'set a new record.”
He Set New Record in '34
Cummings set a new mark in
winning in 1934, averaging 104.86"
j iiiics per hour.
The driving champion, however,
has seen to it that his own mount..
:a {pur-cylinder rear drive, will be
I faster than it was last spring. A
change in manifolds and larger
carburetors, he said, has pepped it
, a few miles an hour faster.
I In keeping with what he calls a
I conservative speed program—al
, though some of the other drivers do
not look upon it as such—Cum
mitigs says he will not try to win
the pole position in the qualifying
trials. There are more than 70 en
tries.
Pole Never Helped Him
-*T want to average about 115
WILD BILL CUMMING5
miles per hour over the 25-mile
qualifying run and that will be
plenty to get me in the race, al
though I expect there will be a
number of cars out in front of me,"
he champion said.
