This is the actual 1905 Darracq that Victor Hemery drove to a new world land speed record of 176.46km/h at Arles in France on 30 December 1905, getting seriously sideways on the Goodwood hillclimb at the 2015 Festival of Speed. Its 150kW, 22.5-litre V8, created by combining two 11.3-litre 1904 Gordon Bennett Trophy fours on a common crankcase. The engine was rebuilt in 2005 using mostly original parts. At the time it was not only the fastest car in the world, it was the fastest machine ever built, as the world airspeed record was then held by the Wright brothers of Dayton, Ohio at 60.23km/h.
This is the actual 1905 Darracq that Victor Hemery drove to a new world land speed record of 176.46km/h at Arles in France on 30 December 1905, getting seriously sideways on the Goodwood hillclimb at the 2015 Festival of Speed. Its 150kW, 22.5-litre V8, created by combining two 11.3-litre 1904 Gordon Bennett Trophy fours on a common crankcase. The engine was rebuilt in 2005 using mostly original parts. At the time it was not only the fastest car in the world, it was the fastest machine ever built, as the world airspeed record was then held by the Wright brothers of Dayton, Ohio at 60.23km/h.