SPEED MANIA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 April 1931, Page 5

SPEED MANIA.

TRYING EXPERIENCE. OF SIR M. CAMPBELL. (Received Tuesday, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, Monday. “I suppose my good luck holds; it was certainly one of my worst experiences,” said Sir Malcolm Campbell, after his narrow shave from a fatal Smash during the Easter races ' ift Brooklands, in a handicap! in which 15 competitors participated. Sir M. Campbell was driving his own Bugatti, and doing one hundred miles an hour. He had braked down to take the bend, when the track rod holding the front wheels in position broke with a terrific crash and tore out the spokes of one wheel. The other jammed, and the Bugatti zig-zagged wildly. The thousands who were lining the bank breathlessly watched Sir M. Campbell desperately fighting to keep the car on the track, one side of which was a high bank, over which a fall would mean almost certain death; on the other side the crowds were packing the rails.

The car careered perilously for at least half a minute, when Sir M. Campbell, with a terrific effort, regained control. He got out efiol and collected, but said that he did not know how he managed to hold the; car on the track. It was a ghastly experience.