Old News | Dario Resta's wife fears

For the first time in automobile race history, one man, Dario Resta, won both the [U.S.] Grand Prix and the Vanderbilt Cup in succession. The victor drove a Peugeot, making but one stop in each race for gas. His time in the Vanderbilt, 296 miles, was 4h 27min 37s.

“I aged ten years during the four hours my husband was speeding to victory – that is the story of the race to me. A fearful vigil!”. With terror greater than pride, Mrs. Mary Resta, 20-year-old bride of Dario Resta, winner of both the Grand Prix and the Vanderbilt Cup races, told of how her husband's laurels had left a sear upon her heart.

Refusing to watch him drive, Mrs. Resta had cowered throughout the whole afternoon in a theater box, oblivious to her surroundings, while the intrepid Italian was demonstrating his track mastery over a score of speed kings. While the grandstands were roaring their acclaim to the greatest pilot of them all, the little slip of a girl for whom he was driving his perilous honeymoon classic, sat white-faced and unseeing among chocolate-munching matinee girls, five miles from the track. Every lap that added to his glory added a hevier weight to her fear. And when he came to her at lenght, grimed and weary, she wept with an excess of relief.