FAST MIDGET CAR

Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 February 1931, Page 5

FAST MIDGET CAR

CAMPBELL\s .SECOND RECORD. 94 MILES AN HOUR. i: I, .t**. i erwv. Atwixnation —By Electno Telegraph OcrpyrigDt ) DAYTONA, Feb. 6. Captain Malcolm Campbell on Fridayestablished a world’s speed record of 94.03.1 miles an hour for tiny automobiles, with a piston displacement of less than 45 cubic inches. The previous record was 87.7(5 miles an hour.

Campbell clipped 6.27 miles an hour off the previous record established in France several years ago. His first run clocked 38.27 seconds, a speed of 94.069 m.p.h., and the second run 38.3 seconds, a speed of 93.994 m.p.h. The average speed for a kilometre course laid out within the measured mile was 93.90 S .M.p.h. for the first run, and 93.9 S for the second, an average of 93.948. It is Captain Campbell’s intention to rest now a week or so before returning to England, where he expects to resume competitive racing.

“WIZARD” SMITH CONFIDENT. N.Z. BEAbH SUPERIOR. "SYDNEY, Feb. 8. Discussing Captain Campbell’s Daytona records, Norman “Wizard” Smith, interviewed here yesterday, said his own attemx>t on Ninety Mile Beach would have some advantage, because the New Zealand beach was 1000 feet wide at low tide, with 36 miles in a perfectly straight line, whereas Daytona was only nine miles long and 100 feet wide. Consequently “Wizard” Smith hopes to eclipse Captain Campbell’s achievement.