LAND SPEED RECORD

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 104, 26 January 1933, Page 9

LAND SPEED RECORD

Muriwai Beach Suitable

ENGLISH MOTORIST’S VIEW

Mr. S. F. Edge, the well-known English pioneer motorist, who is visiting New Zealand, is of the opinion that Muriwai Beach would be quite suitable for an attempt on the world’s land speed record. After paying a special visit of inspection to the beach, Mr. Edge intends to recommend Muriwai Beach to Sir Malcolm Campbell as soon as he arrives baek in England. “It would be a very good thing for the Empire if the world’s land speed record were broken on British territory,” Mr. Edge statde. “Sir Malcolm Campbell, with whom I am well acquainted, would, I know, only be too glad of the opportunity of finding a suitable beach for record purposes in some laud within the Empire, and I am going to give him a very favourable verdict when I get back.” Mr, Edge, who is probably the first visitor with an experienced knowledge of Daytona to inspect Auckland’s west coast beach, said that he considered Muriwai was a first-class track. Drivers who were intent on a world’s record at Daytona were forced to keep almost at the edge of the -water in order that the wheels of the car might be on the hardest portion of sand. At Muriwai, however, there was ample room as far as width was concerned.

Discussing the relative merits of the Ninety Mile and Muriwai Beaches, Mr. Edge said that he had been informed that tbe surface of the former was even better than that which he had inspected, and if that was so it must be a perfect surface indeed. He thought that from the point of view of accessibility, Muriwai Beach would be far better, both for the racing driver and the public as well.