Cycling and Motoring Notes.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1915, Page 3

Cycling and Motoring Notes.

i'Toui fob* Uunlop Rubber Company ol ' Australasia, for tho week ending August 7th, lyio. • • • ■ • .. « The forecasts in the American press "that "World's records would be established on the now Chicago Motor Speedway .have soon been verified, lor the opening •event has; provided sensational figures. The "Chicago Derby", a uOO miles race -drew a select and dareg held of 21 of . tthe lastest cars and drivers inAnierica, ;and provided a"" maguiheent struggle. 'The winner proved to be D. Resta, wJio won by over three minutes, and score red the "dOO" in the almost in- , credible time of <3 nours / minutes, 20 seconds, equal to an average speed ot i)7i juiles an hour. A ""Sunbeam" (Eng land) driven by Porporato was second 'in 5 Jaours 10 minutes' oO seconds— •whilst Reichenbacher on a "Maxwell" was third in 0 hours ll minutes o seconds—a really wouderlul performance. Of the 12 drivers who completed the lull course 10 averaged DO m.p.h. or over, all thus bettering De Raima's world's, competition record of 89.b m.p.h. established in America only a few weeks back. An enormous crowd of 80,000 people witnessed the race, and so great was the rush to the Speedl way. that the railway service was paralysed . The Chicafe Track with its wooden surface proved a groat success, and easy on tryes, as may be judged irom the fact six of the drivers to jiuis'h never changed a tyre. Grant, ■"Sunbeam" who finished 'fifth went right through the contest without a stop oi any kind. D. Hesta's "Pougoot" -1 qyclinder, (overhefad valves), '3.02 '"bone by 0.07" stroke. ***'*** •■■ - 'H. -G. Hawker, the Victorian aviator | mow in England, recently established | * mew British altitude record by fly- [ ing to a height of 20,000 feet, which ■aueans an altitude of over 3J miles: It took Hawker an housr and a half to a Wrarplish Iris flight. He <u«ed an Bt9 E.p-, Sopwith biplane, a similar ma!SV» 'Of machine to that used by him in AV MS *T a iia.