From 1903 to 1910, gas, electric, and steam cars battled for supremacy on this hard beach racecourse. On January 26, 1906, steam won. F.E. Stanley’s special streamlined Stanley Racer, piloted by his driver–mechanic, Fred Marriott, broke the two-miles-in-one-minute barrier, setting the Land Speed Record at 127.659 mph. In an era that saw records fall by the hour, this record held for four years, finally broken by Barney Oldfield in the Lightening Benz in 1910 at 131.276 mph.