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Show Ml SPECIAL CLIPS SPEED IMS: ! Twin Six Makes New Official Offi-cial Records on Sheeps-head Sheeps-head Bay Speedway. All speedway records for distances up to ten miles, marks that have stood for six years, were smashed by the Packard special, equipped with the larger twin-six aviation motor, at the Sheepshead Ba,y track last Friday and Saturday, according to advices received Monday by Alvan Macau ley, president of the Packard Motor Mo-tor Car company. Phil Rader drove the twin -six special in all its trials against time. The records will stand as official, having been made under observance of the A. A. A. The time for the ten miles was 4 minutes, min-utes, 50 and S S- 10d seconds, an average speed of 1-3 and 75-100 miles per hour. The best previous recerd, made at Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, was 5 minutes, 19 and 7S-100 seconds. sec-onds. Rader's fastest mile was at a speed better than li'o miles an hour. To be exact, in 23 and 76-100 seconds. Both these records were made Friday evening. eve-ning. On Saturday morning Rader drove-one-quarter mile in 6 and 91-10U seconds, or at the rate of 130 miles an hour; one-half mile in 13 and 94-100 seconds, or at the rare of 129 miles an hour. The motor In the Packard special is of four-inch bore and six-inch stroke, twelve cylinders of 905 cubic inches total capacity. ca-pacity. The chassis is similar to that of the aeroplane car driven by Ralph De Palma, but the motor is more than three times the size of that in De Pal ma's car and more than twice the size of that in the Packard Twin-Six of stock type. |