Thursday 28th March 1901
Lorraine Barrow set a standing-start one-mile record of 72.6 seconds in a 35 hp Mercedes during the Nice, France, “Week of Speed”. Also at the Nice event, a Daimler driven by S. Knapp won the 82 mile “Tourist Race”.
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