MOTOR TRACK SMASH.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1924, Page 1

MOTOR TRACK SMASH.

RACING AIOTORIST KILLED. All LAN, October 19. Count Zborowsky, the famous racing motorist, was killed to-day in the 800 kilometres (about 500 miles) race for tin* Grand I’rix of the Italian Automobile Club at Hie .Monza track, ten miles from Alilan.

He was driving a Mercedes (German) ear when, during tlie* forty-third lap, it went oil’ the track, and, striking a tree, turned turtle and was wrecked. Count Zborowsky was killed instantly, while bis iiieclianie, named .Martin, was slightly injured. The drivers of the other three -Mercedes cars in the race retired on hearing of the accident. Aseari. driving an Alfa-Honico (Italian ear) was the victor in 5 hours “mill, at an average speed of about 100 miles an hour. Alfu-Ronico ears were also second, third and fourth.

REPUTED AI 1 LLIONAI RE. Count Zborowsky, who was about forty, and said to me a millionaire, was a well-known figure at Brooklands, where for the past few years he lias been a constant and fearless competitor in important races. In Alareh, 1921, bis great six-cylinder ear nicknamed “ Chitty-Bang-Bnng,” with its roaring (101) horse-power Alayhaeh engine (designed for Zeppelins), mounted on a Merecedes chassis, was a chief feature of interest at Brooklatids, This space devourer frequently exceeded a speed of 100 miles an hour. The strenuous services ot two men and a lui"<> lever were required for starting the engine, and the noise thus produced was the origin of the car’s nick-

name. FATHER’S AIOTORING DEATH. The count owned much property in New A'ork. including parts of Broadway, flic nios.t famous tliorouglilare in that city. At Tligham, near Canterbury, lie also bad an estate where there is a garage tilled with his lamous rar-

ing ears. His father also met his death while motor-racing.

It was only last month that Dario Rcsta, an Anglo-1 tnlian, known as “the speed king,” was killed on the Brooklatids track in attempting to lower Hie world’s speed record ol fifty kilometres '(about’ thirty miles), lie lost a tyre, skidded, and crashed through an iron fence.