MOTORING RECORD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 7

MOTORING RECORD.

' OVER EIGHTY MILES HOUR! . • TIT TELEGBAPH^PHESB^ABs6crA^iON-^pPYBiGB?r

: Hew York,- March. 9. !'At tho Ormond-Daytona motor - races'- on tho Florjda Beach, Bornin drovo a 60-horse-powci 1 . car 100- milea''in 1 7'2rain? sec. —a world's record. .? :

The, danger .of • reppxd-ljrealsing,-: r when speed 6 get up'notnlerely but to .eighty or ninety. miles' iih''M6uf','-is il- li lustrated: b)' an neeident on ,tho ■'Brooklands course on January 2. Mr. Tryon was driving" the CO h.p. Napier caE.-belongingvto' Mr.-: Edge, and 'attempting to put up;pow;'r<sords;'~fori; the hour and two hours. ' Ho* began His "task at 12,10,. and'quickly put'on a high-speed. In his. fourteenth lap the-offside ; rear'tyre burst,, and this-caused a little., delay; but ..in, a trifle under-'two minutes the wheel was'changed bodily,'and Mr. Tryon other seven laps had been covered the new tyro on this same wheel burst, and the mi6liap had remarkable results, -i;The -car was running at the top of. the ~by- the grandstand,--and when, tho tyro blitat it turned cMnpletely round three times. It then -slid down ;to : . tho bottom of the bank and tqpb a flying leap right' across tho road, with . it . two; telegraph posts and 'aomff'Won' railings;::'. One ,'of the few eve-witnesses' of the accident stated that the'Sapier fell into a'bank of sand on the opposite side with tho iron railings :it had carried away beneath it. When tho tyre burst, tho ear/was running at the rate of .85 miles an hour, and Mn ; Tryon, the driver,who was the sole occuppntjofrtheiicar;-was; thrown out into the ;mi(jid)e of; the, ro:\dway 4 over which the 'Was'picked 'ip and taken to the-Hand-arid-Spear-Hotel,-Weybridge. 'A doctor, who was summoned, found on examining Miv Trjon that~ho bones" were broken, but that his chest; was badly -bruised. ;■ :•/> »: -rj