SENSATIONAL MOTORING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 28 August 1926, Page 9

SENSATIONAL MOTORING.

DISASTER AT BOULOGNE. AUSTRALIAN DRIVER KILLED. PARIS, August 27. Howey, an Australian, famous as a Brooklands driver, failed to negotiate the second bend in a hill-climbing test at Boulogne and his car dashed among the spectators. Howey was killed instantly, as was also one of the onlookers, a gendarme's leg was broken, and the leg of another man was cut off. SEGRAVE BREAKS RECORD. At the same motor meeting, Major H, 0. D. Segrave accomplished a remarkable feat in road racing, maintaining the astonishing speed of 147 miles an hour over hilly ground. Segrave nearly shared the fate of Howey. While traversing the top of a hill, his car left he ground, soared roaring through the air for 20 yards, and then came lown with a bump which almost fhjng the driver from his seat. He covered a disMajor H. O. D. tance of 5 kiloSegrava. metres in 85 3-ss, thus establishing a rorld's record. —(Reuter.)

Major Segrave will be remembered as the winner of tbe Motor Grand Prix, in France. On that occasion he .drove an English Sunbeam car, covering a distance of 497 miles in 6h 35m 19 3-ss, an average speed of 76 miles an hour. British cars were also third and fourth. Major Segrave has covered over half-a-million miles motor-driving, over 50,000 miles of which has been in racing.