Evening star., 1927-03-29
Sends 4-Ton Racer Hurting
Over Florida Sand to
Shatter Old Mark.
CAR SWERVES VIOLENTLY
BEFORE GUSTS OF WIND
Trial Is Last, Says Englishman,
After Grueling Ride-Time
Not Yet Called Official.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, March 90
Burning the sands of the famous
Daytona Beach, Maj. FL. O. ID. Segrave
an Americana born Englishman in a
four-ton brilliant red speedster, today
catapulted his way to an unofficia
world speed record for the mile
straightaway of 203.S41 miles an hour
The world mile straightaway mark
was set by Malcolm Campbell, also an
Englishman, at 1922 in run on
Wales beach last February.
Maj. Segrave had established an Of
fetal American record last Thursday
when he pounded up the course at a
rate of 1861 miles an hour. This beat
Tommy Millions 1864 mark, set In
1920 here.
Mai. Segraye, premier of European
racing drivers, sent his Mystery s.
at the astounding pace of 2070l5
miles down the course, after beating
UP the track into a quartering head
wind that threw his huge racer into
skids that threatened instant death
The computed average time for the
mile on the two runs was 203.84l
miles an hour, 201.711 for the kilo
meter and 203616 for the five kilo
meters.
So busy was Maj. Segrave in giving
the machine attention after the race
that he had not time for comment on
the sensations of travelling 33.795
miles an hour faster than official
records show man ever Travelled be
fore on the land.
Last Trial Held.
There will be no more trials. Maj
Segraye said that he would start
packing for the return to England
this afternoon.
In the glaring light of the mid-morn
ing sun on the dazzling white beach
every detail of the huge machine was
plainly visible, even as 1t flashed d1
rectly in front of the timing stands
Even faint Outline of the grimly
set features of the driver, straining
to make out the course markers a
quarter of mile ahead, could be
ghmpsed as he roared past.
The beach preserved a striking
record of Segrayets struggle with his
machine. The whirling wheels left
faint trace in the hard packed sands,
straight as the fight of an arrow
where he was driving in apparent
calm, veering wildly where vagrant
wind gusts struck the careening red
meteor.
Hits Three Markers.
Runs were made in a northeast
wind estimated at Is miles an hour,
uuartering the course, which MAJ.
Segrave said made controlling the
machine all but impossible. The
northward trip, into the wind. was
made at 200.66S miles an hour.
On the southwark dash Maj. Sc
graves machine, driven before the
wind, swerved so wide from the flag
marked course that he made kindling
wood of three of the flag slaves with
out knowing he had struck them.
Mai. Segrave's face was all but
blistered in the wind blast, even be
hind the cowling, and at the end OF
the second run he said his hands and
wrists ached from the mighty strug'
gle with the wheel.
Record Not Official.
The record will not become official
until it has been canvassed by the
Judges: Otis Porter, chief timer; IT
f.. Myers of the American Automobile
Association, Val Haresnape, A. A. A.
Contest Board secretary; Gar Wood
speedboat racer and A. w. Galliard
and has been certified by the A. A. A.
Contest Board. 1t may be weeks be.
fore this certification is accomplished
: Fully 1000 persons, lining the sand
dunes bordering the nine-mile course
saw the thousand horsepower, twin
12.cylindered creation speed over the
sands except when it was struck by
gusts of wind