ANOTHER SUCCESS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 465, 24 February 1933, Page 5

ANOTHER SUCCESS

(Press. Assn.-

SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL ATTAINS 273 M.P.H. AT DAYTONA CONDITIONS UNFAV OURABLE Driving with one injured arm over a very bumpy course, Sir Malcolm Campbell, the British racing motorist, attained a maximum speed of 273 miles an hour, and succeeded in smashing his own previous record of 259 miles an hour. The feat was achieved on the Daytona Beach .yestei^d'ay amid ; bumpy conditions and very bad visi ibility. The Bluebird flashed in a J zigfca g course over the measured j mile, finally coming to a stop with its tyres cut to ribbons by the shells | strewn on the beach. [ Sir Malcolm, describing his efi fort as merely a high speed test run, is as yet undecided' whether to make an attempt to raise the record still higher before retuVning to England.

-By Telegraph — Convrlght).

Rec. Feb. 23 Daytona Beach, Feb. 22. Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the world's land speed record at Daytona Beach with a speed of 273.556 miles an hour. He attained an astonishing record on the first official run, despite the fact that the visibility was not good. He clocked over the official measured mile in 13.16 seconds. On the second run he reached a speed of 270.676 miles an hour. The average was 272.108 for the new record. Sir Malcolm has thus exceeded by 18.14 miles an hour his'old record of 253.968 miles an hour. He made the second run in 13.60 seconds for an average lap time of 13.23 seconds. It was a thrilling and breath-taking dash over the beach speedway. The sand was hard-packed. At the same time as he set the mile record Sir Malcolm set a new mark of 271.636 miles an hour over the one-kilometre route, his previous record being 251,340. The first run took 8.18 seconds for a speed of 271.802 miles an hour, and the second run 8.24 seconds for a speed of 271.472 miles an hour.