SIR M. CAMPBELL
(Press Assn.-
doubtful of surface on ninety mile beach WILL not come to n.z.
— By Telegraph— Copyright)
AUCKLAND, Tuesday. Sir Malcolm Campbell has written to the chairman of the Auckland Automobile Racing Club, explaining the cireumstances which influenced him ; in deciding not to come to New Zealand this year. Although he would prefer to makg his next record attempt in New Zealand rather than anywhere else in the world, he says that firstly, if he goes to Daytona he knows exactly what difiiculties to expect, huit confiicting reports reach him abeuUTfie Ninety-Mile Beach. Secondly, the Daytona course is always kept absolutely clear, which he imagines is almost impossible at Ninety-Mile. -Beaeh. - Thirdly, he can get to Daytona and baek within a month. Sir Malcolm said he had read. in one New Zealand paper of gullies 1 running down the cOurse. "I can only - tell you that nothing would induce me to take a gully at a speed of 200 . miles an hour or more. Uneven surfaces are also very danger.ous. I have many times hit these at a high speed, and my ear has jumped over 40 feet. This is all very well at 200 miles an hour but at 250 miles it becomes impossible."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 303, 17 August 1932, Page 5
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