Contestants in the Mint 400 motocross endurance race, Mojave Desert, 1971. The winners that year, J.N. Roberts & Max Switzer, finished the 400-mile off-road race in just under 10 hours. (📷Bill Eppridge / LIFE Pict. Coll.) For more motorcycle magic:
Joseph Scherschel Time & Life Pictures/ShutterstockJoseph Scherschel Time & Life Pictures/ShutterstockFor years, from its inception in 1937 until the early ’60s, the prestigious Daytona 200 motorcycle race wasn’t merely run at Daytona Beach.
Here, seven decades later, LIFE.com opens a window on that long, loud weekend that thrilled racing fans; slightly scandalized one very popular weekly magazine’s editors; and, as if proof was needed that the young sport was still in the hands of rebels and scofflaws, saw two people killed and 30 more injured in the midst of all the high-octane fun.
The 1948 event, which attracted “375 helmeted daredevils and plenty of non-racing hell-raisers,” was marred not only by deaths and injuries but, as LIFE duly noted, by classic knuckleheadism. “Because the antics of an unruly minority reflect on the dignity of motorcycling,” the magazine observed, “the American Motorcycle Association may hire special police at future races. One duty will be to restrain sophomoric cyclists who amused themselves this year by tossing firecrackers into the crowd.
, averaged 84 mph, got $2,000.” What LIFE failed to mention is that Emde won by the sliver-thin margin of 12 seconds; 1948 was the first time a rider led the race from flag to flag; and it was the
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