SEGRAVE RIVAL
WORLD SPEED RECORD PALMA SEEKING FAME. INFLUENTIAL SUPPORT. (United Service.) (Received 10.1-1 a.m.) LONDON, January 22
Major Segrave will have a rival at Daytona Beach, Florida, when -in March he attempts the world’s record with his 450 horse-power car. According to private cables, the famous “.skyrocket,” Ralph de Palma, America’s former speed king, has persuaded J. A, Keech, -holder of the 207 miles an hour record, to let him drive his 1500 horse-power car Triplex.
Segrave is 30 years of age and "Palma 42. • • The latter is trying to get the American Racing Board to lay out two courses -so that he and Segrave can make the race at 240 miles an hour or more.
Daytona Beach ds 20 miles long, with a level stretch, of -six miles, and is -as smooth' as asphalt. It is 500 to 600 yards wide at low-water, providing room for two courses. A certain amount -of American influence is backing up the idea. Keech’s ear, unofficially tinned, has done 238 miles per hour, and since then has been reconstructed and three new Liberty aero engines have been installed. Its theoretical maximum speed is reported to be 250 miles per hour.
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Northern Advocate, 23 January 1929, Page 5
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