THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
THIS YEAR'S SPEED RECORDS.
Interesting Facts and Figures.
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Quite a contrast between the old and the new in the racing game, as these pictures show. At top left is the famous Barney Oldfield in Alexander Winton's Bu llet, while at right is R. E. Olds Centre driving his Pirate in the former days of motoring on the Day tona Beach course. photo shows the Mystery Sunbeam driven by Major H. O. D. Segrave, while at bottom, left to right, are Captain Malcolm Campbell in his Bluebird Special and Ray Keech in the Triplex which he drove to the present record spevil of 207.55 miles an hour. Daytona Beach, Fla., Jan. 21st Captain Back in 1903, Alexander Winton, automotive pioneer of Cleveland, created a sensation by driving his famous Bullet on the Daytona) Beach Ocean Spoedway for one nilla in 62 1-5 seconds, or a rate of 69 miles an hour.
Malcolm Campbell of Only Place for High Speed.
In addition, it is expected other London, who raced his Bluebird
Feb. 18, 1928, at an entries will come in for the oventa Special on even faster clip of 206.95 miles an to be staged here next March. hour; and J. M. White of Philadel
The beach here is particularly phia, whose 36-cylinder Triplex suitable for
high-speed racing Ray Keech drove down the bench such as that attained last year. It at the record speed of 207.55 miles is 24 miles long with only one an hour.
Last year Ray Keech shot over
Major Segrave is coming to the same distance. In a little over America with a new creation, The 17 seconds. And this year even this remarkable record is expected Golden Arrow, which he hopes to be lowered when some of the will attain a speed of 240 miles world's greatest auto racers par- an hour or one mile in. 15 seconds. ticipate in the annual speedway Caplain Campbell also has a new type of racer for which he recent- events from March 1 to 15,
ly made a light over the Sahara Already the directors of the Desert in a fruitless effort to find third international automobile suitable racing course there. speed classic here have the entries White's Triplex will be the only of three racers who burned up the car that will remain practically hard packed sands last year. They unchanged. This year he expects: are Major H. O. D. Segrave, Bal- to have Ralph DePalma, the famous timore-born Londoner, who on Italian-American racer, pilot his April 29, 1927 drove his Mystery juggernaut down the beach for un Sunbeam on the Daytona bench at even greater record than that set a rate of 203.73 miles an hour; by Keech.
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boy, on a motoreyale. The other was Frank : Ebbkhart, fanious racer, who was hurled into the surf with his special Stutz Black Hawk racer last year while going at more than 200 miles an hour.
Started 26 Years Ago.
Yet auto racing, here, much faster than that possible on the various race tracks in the conn try, has been an institution sinca 1903. It was in that year that Winton. drove his Bullet racer at a speed of one milo in 52 1-5 sec- onds and Oscar Hedstrom, on an Indian motorcycle, covered the same distance in one minute three and one-fifth seconds. In 1926 Johnny Seymour, also using on Indian motorcycle, cut this record down to: 31 seconds.
In 1004 William K. Vanderbilt, driving a Mercedes, startled the world by traversing a mile in 89 seconds, but a day later he was bonten in a competitive race by Barney Oldfield, driving the fainous Bilzen Benz.
The 1005 meet tore the record table into pieces, Arthur C. Mc- Donald, with a Napier, cutting Vanderbilt's speed to a mile in 34 4-5 seconds. McDonald also did a kilometer in 23 seconds, while H. W. Fletcher, driving a De Duetrich, wont 100 miles in 1 hour, 18 minutes, 24 seconds. Ten records were made in all
In 1900 Victor Demogoat, aboard a Darracq, hurtled two miles in 58 4-5 seconds, while Frank Marriott, driving a Stanley Steamer, reduced the mile show- ing to 28 1-6 seconds.
From 1907 on until after the- war few new records were made. But in 1919 Ralph DePalma, driv- ing a Packard, lowered records for these distance: 10 miles, 4 min- ulen 9.31 seconds: 15 miles, G minutes 48.76 seconds; 15 miles, 6 minutes 48.75 seconds; 20 miles, 8 minutes 52.20 seconds. De Palma also made a mile from a standing start in 38.88 seconds,
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All Recorda Oficial. .In 1920 Tommy Milton peared in a Duesenberg, and set the rate of 166 4-10 miles, an drivers were hour. All these timed by, the, contest board of the American Automobile Association. In 1922 Sig Haugdahl, driving break. across it, that of the ap proach to the Ocean Pier Casino Wisconsin Special timed by at Main street. At low tide the representatives of the Interna- width of the beach in 500 feet, tlonal Motor Contest Association, both length and width affording was credited with 180.27 milles ample room for the racers to open an hour. the throttles to their limits.
Then in 1927 came, Major Se- Added to these advantages Is grave in his British-made Sun- the fact that the beach's mixture beam, which attained maximum of coquina and sand, wave-rolled with-the-wind speed of 207 miles a two-trial average by each incoming tide, gives the an hour and course a particularly smooth and of 203.79 miles an hour. hard surface.
In all the years of racing, only two drivers have met their death here. One was Frank Croker, son of the noted Richard Croker, Tammany leader, who was killed when he tried, to avoid hitting a
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