QUARTER-MILE SKID
NEW MOTOR “RECORD" The longest skid in the motor racing was seen on the j**® Pendine (Wales) last month, wh* i nor Foresti was practising for n : tempt to lower the worlds j speed record. The driver with his 400-h.p. speeding at 120 miles an hour i the start of the measured mu- ' ! the car struck a wet patch o The tail swung round the machine proceeded to a® | of extraordinary gyrations ° VC p or tr tance of a quarter of a mile. . $ 'first 150yds it careered the driver facing the sea, swung farther round, and the cajelled almost backward, the drl I ing the village of Pendine. from he had started. hftr Then the car struck a f | u * rt j e td patch of sand, turned a full <4 •a quarter, and continued j with the driver facing the Meanwhile the drag of the - * ; up mountains of sand and w i sent volumes of black smoKj jfrom the exhaust. Finally. skill. Foresti straightened up ! and proceeded as though no K j happened.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 212, 26 November 1927, Page 12
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