{"id":460117,"date":"2004-02-01T03:05:01","date_gmt":"2004-02-01T11:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=103657"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:45:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:45:48","slug":"david-goliath-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/david-goliath-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"David &#038; Goliath Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year marks the 70th birthday of the famous Napier Railton. Commissioned and driven by John Cobb and designed and built by Reid Railton, the 24-liter Napier aero-engined leviathan captured 47 world records between 1933 and 1947, including the 24-hour record at 150.16 mph. It set the Brookland\u2019s outright lap record in 1935 at 143.44 mph and won the 1937 Brooklands 500-mile race at 127.05 mph average.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a way of honoring this historic anniversary, the Brooklands Museum brought a piece of history to life when it restaged the scene of a famous photograph demonstrating the wide variation of cars that competed together at Brooklands in the \u201930s. The photo depicts John Cobb at the wheel of the Napier Railton, while in the foreground is Austin works team leader Pat Driscoll, in one of the four supercharged 750cc works racers. The Austin, nicknamed \u201cRubber Ducks\u201d, set many national and international speed records between 1931 and 1934 and raced regularly against the Napier Railton at Brooklands in 1933 and 1934. Some 70 years later the team from Brooklands and the owner of this remarkable, unrestored works racer, Martin Eyre, restaged the scene from that original photograph.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Submitted by Steve Havelock<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/n5-200402-p2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-697723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/n5-200402-p2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/n5-200402-p2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/n5-200402-p2-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/n5-200402-p2-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/n5-200402-p2-100x68.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/n5-200402-p2-770x525.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/n5-200402-p2-293x200.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the 70th birthday of the famous Napier Railton. Commissioned and driven by John Cobb and designed and built by Reid Railton, the 24-liter Napier aero-engined leviathan captured 47 world records between 1933 and 1947, including the 24-hour record at 150.16 mph. It set the Brookland\u2019s outright lap record in 1935 at 143.44 mph and won the 1937 Brooklands 500-mile race at 127.05 mph average. As a way of honoring this historic anniversary, the Brooklands Museum brought a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":697722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,11441,18160],"tags":[17152,894,6375],"class_list":["post-460117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-museum","category-napier","tag-car-culture","tag-museum","tag-napier"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>David &amp; Goliath Revisited<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"David &amp; Goliath Revisited\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/david-goliath-revisited\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"David &amp; 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