The Mad Racer was a 1926 American short silent comedy film directed by Philadelphian director Benjamin Stoloff.

[1] As described in a film magazine review,[1] Reginald Van Bibber is spending a vacation with Colonel Paddock's party at a ranch owned by a friend of the Colonel's.

The peace of the ranch is occasionally disturbed by a desperado known as the Mad Racer, the terror of the countryside.

The ranch foreman hires the Mad Racer to dispose of Van Bibber so that the foreman can win the annual buggy race and win over Sylvia Paddock, with whom he is infatuated.

After being dragged by a runaway vehicle, he stumbles into the leading chariot in which the Mad Racer lies stunned.