Topping out at 272 mph, he beat his previous year’s record by nearly 20 mph.īritain's Sir Malcolm Campbell, right, with his son Donald, on board the British Cunard liner Berengaria at Southampton, MaAP/1935 AP It was on this day, 90 years ago that he did his first run in his Campbell-Railton Blue Bird at Daytona, USA.
He started trying to break the land speed record.īetween 19, Campbell would break nine land speed records, first with Sunbeam cars and then moving on to his own signature Blue Bird cars. Although he wasn’t interested at first in cars, opting to work in banks in the 1910s, he quickly developed his obsession by competing in motorcycle races.Īfter serving as a Major in the British Army during the First World War, Campbell dedicated himself to racing. Considering the fastest speed achieved in a car available for purchase was 277.87 mph done in a Koenigsegg Agera RS in 2017, 84 years later, that’s quite impressive.Ĭampbell was a British racing driver and motorsports journalist born in 1885. On this day in 1933, Sir Malcolm Campbell drove his Campbell-Railton Blue Bird car to a land speed record of 272 mph. Today’s Culture Re-View is dedicated to one of those attempts.
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