{"id":32346,"date":"2014-07-07T19:19:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/the-fastest-sports-car\/"},"modified":"2019-07-20T22:34:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T21:34:30","slug":"the-fastest-sports-car","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/june-1939\/12\/the-fastest-sports-car\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FASTEST SPORTS CAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE FASTEST SPORTS CAR<\/p>\n<p>Sir,<\/p>\n<p>Discussions in MOTOR SPORT regarding the fastest sports-car seem to have centred round Mr. Lycett&#8217;s 8-litre Bentley; the general opinion of the ex-Birkin blower 4-i, owned by the RobertsonRoger brothers appears to be based on MOTOR SPORT&#8217;S best, which revealed a maximum of 104 m.p.h., this speed also being reached on third gear. However, an article by L. G. McKenzie, &#8221; Tuning the Bentley,&#8221; published in a previous issue of MOTOR SPORT points out that this particular car originally had a special cylinder block with bigger ports and valves, though this is now fitted ; it seems that to test the car fairly such a block should he fitted. If a test were carried out under such conditions, I think that a performance at least approaching that of Mr. Lycett&#8217;s 8-litre car might be expected. I am, Yours etc.,<\/p>\n<p>R. H. WALTERS.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[56066],"issue_decade":[121665],"issue_year":[121667],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/32346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/32346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245520,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/32346\/revisions\/245520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32346"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=32346"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=32346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}