{"id":543617,"date":"2026-03-16T07:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543617\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:51:10","slug":"land-speed-record-car-returns-to-beach-100-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543617\/","title":{"rendered":"Land speed record car returns to beach 100 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Henry O&#8217;Neal de Hane Segrave, a Baltimore-born British national, already had a successful Grand Prix career under his belt when he turned to record-breaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The car that allowed him to take the first of his three land speed records was Sunbeam&#8217;s Ladybird, later known as Tiger, designed by engineer Louis Coatalen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This compact, supercharged V12 car would be the last holder of the ultimate speed record. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It had also built a successful career away from the beaches and on the race circuits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only a year after his success at Southport, Segrave along with Coatalen&#8217;s twin engine Sunbeam 1000 hp, now a part of the National Motor Museum collection at Beaulieu, would be the first to take the record to over 200mph at Daytona Beach in America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Segrave 100 Southport Celebration event, organised by Aintree Circuit Club, takes place on Ainsdale Beach between 10:00 &#8211; 12:30 GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Henry O&#8217;Neal de Hane Segrave, a Baltimore-born British national, already had a successful Grand Prix career under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-543617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}