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The car was later known as the Fiat 300HP Record.
We need this rare and exciting car in the game. Drive it if you can!
A 290hp 28.5L I4 in a Car that weighs more than 1700kg.
Built by Fiat to content with Mercedes Blitzen Benz Speed Record Car the Beast was able to hit a top speed of 132mph which was faster than most planes of the era. Unfortunately the Vehicle wasn’t able to claim the Land Speed Record at the time as it was unable to make a return trip to the Starting Line within a Required Time Limit.
Two were built with the first one being completed in 1910 for Fiat and a second being completed in 1911 for the Russian Prince Boris Soukhanov.
Fiat’s first Test Driver, Felice Nazzaro, drove the car once and claimed it so was hard to control and terrifying that he refused to do it again. When Soukhanov got his he hired 24 Year old Italian Racing Driver Pietro Bordino to drive the car at the Brooklands Race Track in an attempt to break the Speed Record but he also found it terrifying to drive and refused to go more than 90mph.
In 1913 Soukhanov then hired the American Arthur Duray to drive the Car at Ostende in Belgium where it finally hit the speed of 132mph but he was unable to return in time and so lost the record as previously mentioned.
Fiat kept the first S76 but dismantled it after World War 1 and left it in Storage. Soukhanov’s Car disappeared for a while but the Chassis was found in 1919 in Australia without the engine. Someone then bought it and fitted a new Stutz Engine with the intent to race it but it was crashed sometime in the 1920’s.
After that the Car kept switching hands until ending up with British Collector Duncan Pittaway (pictured below) in 2003. He tracked down the original engine which had disappeared sometime prior to the Chassis appearing in Australia and spent the next few years working with original documents to restore it completely.
At the 2015 Goodwood FOS
In a Museum
Circa 1913
