NINETY MILE BEACH
Sir Malcolm Campbell’s Letter WON’T SUIT PURPOSE By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, August 16. Sir Malcolm Campbell has written to the chairman of the Auckland Automobile Racing Club explaining the circumstances which influenced him in deciding not to come to New Zealand this year, although he would prefer, he, said, to make his next record attempt in New Zealand rather than anywhere else in the world. If he goes to Daytona, Sir Malcolm Campbell said, he knows exactly what difficulties to expect, but conflicting reports reach him about the Ninety Mile Beach. Secondly, the Daytona course is always kept absolutely clear, which he imagines is almost impossible at the Ninety Mile Beach. Thirdly, he can get to Daytona and back .within a month. Sir Malcolm says he read in one New Zealand paper of gulleys running down the course. “I can only tell you that nothing would induce me to take a gulley at a speed of 200 m.p.h. or more. Uneven surfaces, also, are very dangerous. I have many times hit these at high speed, and my car has jumped 40ft. This is all very well at 200, but at 250 It becomes impossible.”
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 276, 17 August 1932, Page 8
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