GREAT FEAT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 December 1928, Page 13

GREAT FEAT.

One of the most remarkable feats in motor-cycle history was accomplished recently at Brooklands track. C. W. G. Lacey, riding a 498 c.c. Japengined Grindlay-Peerless, tuned solely by himself, covered 103 miles 532 yards in one hour, thereby breaking ten world’s records, including the coveted 500 c.c. hour record.

The nature of the achievement can scarcely be comprehended by those who do not know the conditions under which the rider laboured. Brooklands track, far from being a perfect speedway, has nowadays a rough, bumpy surface, worse than that of almost any of the English main roads. So had, in fact, is the surface, that racing ! men hold the view that'for purely phy- : sical reasons it was impossible for any motor-cyclist to cover .100 miles in the hour on Brooklands —Britain’s only race track, excluding, of course, the small dirt tracks.

Owing to the state of the track it has become customary for riders who wish to break high-speed records to visit the more recently laid Montlhery track, near Paris. On that track they are not stressed to the limit of their endurance. But even more important is the fact that, owing to its smooth surface, Montlhery is actually faster than Brooklands. Indeed, many experts consider that a machine capable of a hundred miles an hour at Brooklands will attain approximatelv 103 miles per hour at Montlhery.' This is the first time a SDO c.c. machine has covered 100 miles in one hour in Great Britain. Ihe previous perionnances, although standing to the credit of British machines, were estabished at Montlhery.