wimpy hat geschrieben:
OOOOOH BOLLOCKS !!!! 
Bollox indeed.
On 22 April 1928, Ray Keech drove this contraption to a new land speed record of 207.55 mph (334.02 km/h) at Daytona.
This record was raised to over 230 mph by Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave in the Golden Arrow on 11 March 1929.
J. M. White, the builder/owner of the Triplex, then asked Keech to drive it at Ormond Beach, to re-break the record. Keech wisely declined, considering the car to be too dangerous. White then hired their team mechanic Lee Bible, a garage owner, who had no experience driving at these speeds.
On his first two runs, Bible was timed at first 186 mph (299 km/h) and then 202 mph (325 km/h), both below the Triplex's previous record and well short of the Golden Arrow's. At the end of this second run, the Triplex ran off the track and into the sand dunes, causing it to roll over, finally coming to a stop 200 ft further. Bible was thrown from the car, killing him instantly. A Pathé newsreel cinema photographer, Charles Traub, was also killed. The aftermath of the incident you can see in the last photo I posted.
The first one to arrive at Lee Bible's dead body was none other than Sir Henry. He subsequently never drove the Golden Arrow again, or any other land speed record car for that matter, and concentrated on water speed records. This makes the Golden Arrow the record car with the lowest mileage ever. It is now sitting in the National Motor Museum in Hampshire, with just shy of 31 kilometers on the clock. Segrave himself got killed during a water speed record attempt on Lake Windermere just over a year later, aged 33.
This, my friends, is proper stiffer upper lip stuff.
Now go on and explain me that "Bremsen" thingy again...
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