Motor Speed Trials were held on the new South Promenade on the 14th and 15th of October 1904 for the first time, and a British record of 84.68 mph was set for the “flying kilometre”

Motor races along the Promenade

Motor trials at the Start point, South Shore

Motor Records at Blackpool – 1906

A day at Blackpool motor races was full of records. The most sensational was Mr. Lee Guiness’s lowering of the world’s record for the kilometre from standing start. In a Darracq car, driving against a strong wind, he covered the distance at a speed of over sixty-eight miles an hour in 32.2 seconds, beating his owner former record by a second. He also set a new English record for the kilometre with a flying start, doing the distance in 21 sec – a speed of more than 106 miles an hour. In the standing kilometre race for light racers another world record was created by Mr. A. Huntly Walker. Yet, another record was set when Miss Dorothy Levitt won the ladies’ flying kilometre race in 24.3 sec. There were 214 competitors – another record for Blackpool. The flying kilometre for motor buses was won by Darracq- Serpollet, F.I.A.T. being second.

Mr. Guiness making a world record

Miss Levitt making the ladies record

Birds-eye view of the course

Motor-cycle race, competitors getting away

Giant competitors, the motor bus race

The flying kilometre race for £650 cars, ready to start

The flying kilometre race for £450 chassis, Argyll leads