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Find out about City-to-city / Gordon Bennett driver, Alexander Winton, their career, history and character information incl. races, teams and much more.
Jul 29, 2020 · The Bullet No. 1 had lost to Henry Ford’s famous 999 in sheer speed in a race over a frozen Michigan lake, so Winton sought to recapture the world’s attention by winning the 1903 Gordon Bennett road race, described by the contemporary press as the automotive equivalent of yachting’s America’s Cup.
Alexander Winton (June 20, 1860 – June 21, 1932) was a Scottish-American bicycle, automobile, and diesel engine designer and inventor, as well as a businessman and racecar driver. Winton founded the Winton Motor Carriage Company in 1897 in Cleveland, Ohio
Oct 30, 2001 · Dearborn, MI -- Henry Ford's one and only race on October 10, 1901, in nearby Grosse Pointe, Michigan change the world. It was that race, in which Mr. Ford upset Alexander Winton, the country's...
Sep 23, 2018 · Winton decided that the way to get still bigger was to go racing, which is arguably his most enduring claim to automotive fame. In 1901, Winton took his stripped-down beast, the Winton Bullet, to Detroit for a match race against the 999, piloted by an unknown named Henry Ford, and fell out while leading.
- Jim Donnelly
Apr 13, 2020 · Five years later, in 1901, Ford won his first race by beating Alexander Winton in a 10-lap race at the Detroit Driving Club. You can see that exact car, known as the Sweepstakes, at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. By 1903, his race cars were topping 60 mph.
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1901. Henry Ford drives in his first and only race; defeats Alexander Winton in a 10-lap race on a one-mile oval track at the Detroit Driving Club, Grosse Pointe, Mich. 1902. Barney Oldfield drives 999 to victory in a five-mile race at Grosse Pointe for the "Manufacturers' Challenge Cup."
