{"id":203423,"date":"2025-09-05T22:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203423\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T22:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:36:18","slug":"astor-challenge-cup-visits-spiritual-home-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203423\/","title":{"rendered":"Astor Challenge Cup Visits \u2018Spiritual Home\u2019 in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Astor Challenge Cup has found a home with Alex Palou, who has won the NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship trophy four of the last five years since he joined Chip Ganassi Racing in 2021.<\/p>\n

But this week, Palou brought the iconic trophy to its spiritual home in midtown Manhattan from its actual home at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum.<\/p>\n

As part of his Champion\u2019s Tour this week in New York<\/a>, Palou brought the trophy Tuesday, Sept. 2 to Astor House, located at 130 E. 80th St. in the prestigious Upper East Side section of Manhattan.<\/p>\n

The Astor House is a five-story Neo-Classic style townhouse designed by renowned architect Mott B. Schmidt in 1927 for Vincent Astor, son of John Jacob Astor IV, a prominent businessman and purportedly the richest man to die during the sinking of the Titanic.<\/p>\n

Vincent Astor commissioned the Astor Challenge Cup more than a century ago to be presented to the winner of the Astor Cup Challenge, a 350-mile race on a 2-mile board track at Sheepshead Bay, New York.<\/p>\n

The inaugural Astor Cup Challenge race in October 1915 featured a purse of $50,000, which duplicated that of the Indianapolis 500. The Stutz team outlasted a field of 20 to finish first in 3 hours, 24 minutes, 42 seconds. Driver Gil Andersen earned the $20,000 winner\u2019s share by averaging 102.6 mph.<\/p>\n

A second and final Astor Cup race in September 1916 was shortened to 250 miles. Johnny Aitken, driving a Peugeot owned by the Indianapolis Speedway Team Company of Carl Fisher and James Allison, won with an average speed of 104.83 mph.<\/p>\n

\"Alex<\/p>\n

The Astor House (photo, above) was purchased by the New York Junior League as its headquarters in 1947 to facilitate training and membership events. The house was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967 and is now used as an event and meeting space of distinction.<\/p>\n

The Astor Challenge Cup has officially been presented to the INDYCAR SERIES champion driver since 2011. The names of all INDYCAR SERIES champions from 1909 (George Robertson; American Automobile Association sanction) to 2025 (Alex Palou; INDYCAR sanction) are laser-etched into the three black granite bases of the sterling silver trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astor Challenge Cup has found a home with Alex Palou, who has won the NTT INDYCAR SERIES…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-203423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115154084443525557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}