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Millbrook Test
Purpose of test
Time evaluation for slow down, pit entry, turn around, re-join track and return speed. The car speed before and after was 135m.p.h.
Note
The first attempt at high speed resulted in missing the track exit and therefore continuing to do another couple of laps before another attempt.
Video shown with thanks to Millbrook Proving Ground
Points to note
‘Healey Endurance’ car needs a faster venue
The Healey endurance car completed its second day of tests at Millbrook on Aug 12th 2008. The test results at the track in Bedfordshire have proved just how difficult achieving a new record can be, with the car running just 2 mph below its target speed. A small difference but one that the team feel is critical to achieving its desire of beating the record set in 1954.
Car Road Test
Click the thumbnail below to view a video of the Endurance Car road test:
The new ‘Healey Endurance’ record car gets approval from ‘the expert’
Roy Jackson Moore visited the premises of Denis Welch Motorsport on the 7th May 2008. This was a historic visit to celebrate an historic event, the official launch of the Healey Endurance car to the public.
A new beginning, a new ‘Endurance’ record
In 1953 Donald Healey had an ambition to take the 200mph production car speed record, and the 24-hour endurance record. He had built one of the most iconic sports cars of the Fifties and teamed up with Austin to produce it in volume. The car had wowed the public at Earls Court motor show but it was felt that record breaking would prove both the design and the integrity of the Austin Healey and its components. Consequently in 1953 standard production cars were used to take the production car records covering 3100 miles in 30 hours at an average speed of 104.3 mph.
