biography
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Oldfield, (Berna Eli) Barney
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| male
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| lived:
| (1878–1946)
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| biography:
| Motor-racing driver, born in Wauseon, Ohio, USA. One of motor-racing's pioneers, he began as a bicycle racer. He was the first to race a car a mile a minute (1903), driving Henry Ford's famous ‘999’ racer. A colourful showman who specialized in short ‘match’ races on dirt tracks, he also established a land speed record in 1910 for a one-mile distance at over 131 mph. |
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