120 MILES AN HOUR RACING
MOTOR-CAR WITH 600 H.P. "ZEPP”
ENGINE.
Two of tlje motor-car races at Brooklands, Weybridge, on March 28 were won by Count Zborowski, in his roaring 600 h.p. giant, appropriately named Chitty-Bang-Bang, at a speed of just over 100 miles an hour.
Much interest was taken by the largo crowd in this spuce-devourer with its huge 6-cylinder Maybach engine, as deaigned for Zeppelins, "mounted on a Mercedes chassis.
The highest pace at which a race was won was tne 105 miles an hour, at which Andre Boiilot, on Mr. Coatalen’s sixcylinder Sunbeam, secured the 81 miles handicap from scratch. But in the lightning handicap over the same distance, which Count Zborowski’s Mercedes won at 89 miles an hour, Mr.' Coatalen’s 12-cylinder Sunbeam, driven by K. Lee Guinness, after some delay at the start, gathered speed at a tremendous rate and covered one lap (about 23 miles) at 120 miles an hour, to finish second. It was a very spectacular performance.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 205, 25 May 1921, Page 6
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164120 MILES AN HOUR RACING Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 205, 25 May 1921, Page 6
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