2 things I hadn't read about Barney Oldfield until now

By the end of year, he held every track speed record for one to fifty miles.

He won the 1914 Cactus Derby, an excruciating 671~ mile ofrroad endurance test from Los Angeles to Phoenix, and was crowned "Master Driver of the Universe."

http://www.firstsuperspeedway.com/sites/default/files/B_Oldfield_Green_Dragon.pdf