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Faster-Exhibition: Faster: The Quest for Speed is the newest exhibition at the Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, Maine. The exhibition opened in June 2014.

Ferrari_Dues: A Michael Schumacher-driven Ferrari F2002 Formula 1 car is a stark contrast that of early race cars such as the 1915 Duesenberg (shown at left) and 1907 Renault Vanderbilt Cup Racer. The vehicles selected for exhibition in Faster: The Quest for Speed demonstrate the evolution of racing in its various incarnations, including bicycles, motorcycles and historic soap box derby cars. Credit: Owls Head Transportation Museum

Duesenberg: The 1915 Duesenberg “Benedict Special.” The historic race car is the second-oldest Duesenberg in the world. It competed successfully in the 1916 Indy 500 and is currently on display at The Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head as part of the new exhibition, Faster: The Quest for Speed. Credit: Owls Head Transportation Museum

Sheepshead Bay: The 1915 Duesenberg “Benedict Special” (number 25) in its racing glory. The historic racer will be featured with dozens of other notable racing vehicles in the Owls Head Transportation Museum’s exhibition Faster: The Quest for Speed. Credit: The Joseph Freeman Collection

Faster-Exhibition: Faster: The Quest for Speed is the newest exhibition at the Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, Maine. The exhibition opened in June 2014.

OWLS HEAD — The Owls Head Transportation Museum has a new exhibition: Faster: The Quest for Speed. This exhibition includes antique and contemporary racecars, racing motorcycles and bicycles.

Faster is hosted in the Museum’s State of Maine Wing and will be resident for three years.

The exhibition strives to tell the story of mankind's quest for speed and the enduring passion for agility, performance and speed sought through vehicles of both the two-and-four-wheeled kind sourced from world-class collections throughout the East Coast.

Faster: The Quest for Speed features dozens of vehicles and highlights include a Michael Schumacher driven Ferrari F2002 Formula 1 car, the world's second-oldest Duesenberg: a 1915 Indy team car, a 1907 Renault Vanderbilt Cup Racer, a 1930 Bentley Speed Six, a 1929 JAP motorcycle a Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and more.

Faster: The Quest for Speed explores racing — from the competition Go-Karts, Soapbox Derby cars, and mini-bikes that spurred the passion for racing in many young drivers, to upper-echelon internationally revered race cars like the Ferrari F2002. The exhibition includes racing ephemera, uniforms, trophies and historic graphics from the museum’s own Lang Library and materials sourced from private collections.

“This is certainly the most ambitious exhibition in the history of OHTM, not only are the vehicles significant, their stories represent the multi-faceted history of racing from youth racing all the way to Formula 1. We feel it is our duty to showcase the aesthetic and historical significance of each piece while striving to tell a story that will educate and thrill our visitors, and I think we have certainly achieved that with Faster,” said Owls Head Transportation Museum Executive Director Russ Rocknak.

The Owls Head Transportation Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and standard admission is $12 for adults, $10 for visitors over 65 and free to youth under 18 as well as retired and active duty military personnel.

To learn more about the museum visit owlshead.org.

For more information about Faster: The Quest for Speed please contact Owls Head Transportation Museum Public Relations Director Jenna Lookner at 207-594-4418 or by email at jl@ohtm.org.