SPEED THRILL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 9

SPEED THRILL.

CAMPBELL'S RECORD.

Car Dashes Past Like Cyclonic

Dust-Storm.

DECIDED TO TRY AGAIN,

(United P.A.—Electric Teiegrapn—Copyright) (Received 9.30 a.m.) DAYTONA BEACH, March 8. Sir Malcolm Campbell, besides breaking his own world record, also broke three other world's speed records yesterday. In addition to the mile record he averaged 276.160 miles Jan hour for one kilometre, 268.474 miles an hour for five kilometres, and 251.396 miles an hour for five miles. It was an unexpected sortie after a last minute decision to wait no longer for the sands to become smooth to the state of perfection the motorist needed. Sir Malcolm, however, is dissatisfied with what he considered a poor showing and has decided to remain until late in March in the hope of securing a flawless course. Fifty thousand people lined the course and cheered Sir Malcolm is he sped past. The run was as dangerous as any he has ever made here. The smooth rubber surface of all the six tyres on the car was literally burned away and the casings hung in shreds like strips of torn burlap. Parts were within two plys of the inner tubes. "The run down was splendid," said Sir Malcolm, "but Coming back was a simply terrible beach. Although the six miles stretch at the south end was very rough I had to get up speed then, so I simply trod her down to the floor and held on. Feel the Tyres Going. "I could feel the tyres going, but I was all right until just after I left the measured mile. Then I hit a huge bump and the wheels were wrenched over. I thought I had gone. It was terrifically close, but just as the left wheels got where they seemed to be touchiiig the soft sands they came back and everything was all right. I hurt both my wrists in pulling the car back."

Before Lady Campbell would allow Sir Malcolm to make the run she drove over the course in an "ordinary motor car at 80 miles an hour. Then, satisfied that it was in good condition, she gave her husband the signal to start.

The Bluebird, completely repaired and overhauled, started on the southward run over the 12-mile course on hard white sand marked by a black oil stripe. It flashed past the racing tower like a oyclonic dust-storm. Only a Avail of dust raised by the flat-beaked Bluebird could be seen by the spectators and the thrum of the 2r>oo horse-power motors was all that could be heard. •

Although pleased with the second effort Lady Campbell indicated that it was below the mark her husband had hoped to set.

"DICING WITH DEATH." Risk of Life Deprecated in England. HOPES FOR 300 M.P.H. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 8. Lord Wakefleld lias cabled congratulations to Sir Malcolm Campbell, adding: "You should be content to rest on the laurels which you have so gloriously earned." The cablegram epitomises the general feeling in Britain that Sir Malcolm should not further risk his life. Mr. Kayo Don, the English speed boat racer, who witnessed the record, declares that the return run was the most heroic th'iig in Sir Malcolm Campbell's career. "I don't wish to see him again dicing with death." he added.

Sir Malcolm Campbell, in response to the "Star's" motoring writer, who in a transatlantic telephone conversation begged him to conic homo, replied: "I still hope to do 300 miles."