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Car racing got its start here when two automobile pioneers, Ransom E. Olds and Alexander Winton, squared off on Ormond's hard-packed beach sands. Although auto racing later moved 5 miles south to Daytona Beach, Ormond's broad beach was the Valhalla of automobile races for three decades. All the greats of racing competed here, from Barney Oldfield and the Stanley Brothers of Stanley Steamer days to Eddie Rickenbacker and Sir Malcolm Campbell. Records were set and broken almost every year, from a once amazing 68 MPH in 1903 to almost 300 MPH in 1935.
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