1913/12/22 Brooklands Record Attempts

Note: This is a sub-section of 1913 Brooklands Calendar

'L. G. Hornsted, the old racing cyclist, beat two world's motor records at Brooklands motordrome, Weybridge, yesterday. He used the same 200-h.p. Benz with which Victor Hemery made the previous records in November, 1909, but the car been overhauled and improved in the Benz factory in Germany. The weather was misty, but there was no wind. The distances over which Hornsted was timed were the standing start kilometre and the standing start half mile. Running the normal way of the track, be covered the kilometre in 29.62 sec., and travelling the reverse way he did 31.19 sec. His mean time was therefore 30.405 sec., a speed of 73.57 mile. per hour, as against Hemery's 31.326 see. and 71.409 miles per hour. Over the half-mile Hornsted did 25.49 sec. in the normal direction and 25.60 sec. to the opposite direction, a mean of 25.54 sec., giving a pace of 70.47 miles per hour. Hemery's old record for the standing start half-mile was 25.566 sec., equal to 70.406 miles per hour.'

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