(09-04-2015, 09:35 AM)Geekay Wrote: On a lighter note, if the internet had existed in the early 1900's, I wonder if we would have had a forum slagging off this new fangled Tourist Trophy thing? "Can't see it catching on myself" and " Nobody wants to see these petrol engines; they'll never replace steam" or "I can't see them ever reaching any decent speeds" etc etc.

More likely they would be saying " it'll never replace electric", as most, if not all,of the first speed records, were set by electric vehicles!