NEW RIVAL
ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO BREAK SEGRAVE’S RECORD. KAYE DON TO TRY IN 1930. SPECIALLY BUILT CAR. LONDON, March 16. Undeterred by the Daytona tragedy, the famous racer, Kaye Don, will tackle Segrave’s record in 1930 in a speciallydesigned car, capable of 260 miles an hour.—(Australian Press Association.— United Service.)
(After Segrave and Campbell, Kaye Don is probably Britain’s greatest racing motorist. He holds the Brooklands record with a 25-mile ru» at an average speed of 128.36 miles per hour, and a lap record of 131.76 miles per hour. He also won the International Tourist Trophy of the Royal Automobile Club on the Ard Circuit, Belfast, in August last.)
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19290318.2.33
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Age, 18 March 1929, Page 5
Word Count
109NEW RIVAL Wairarapa Age, 18 March 1929, Page 5
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.