Coniston Water per hour () in "Blue Bird K4". Between 1956 and 1959 Sir Malcolm's son Donald Campbell set four successive records on the lake in "Bluebird K7", a hydroplane. In 1966 Donald Campbell decided that he needed to exceed 300 miles per hour (483 km/h) in order to retain the record. On 4 January 1967, he achieved a top speed of over 320 miles per hour () in "Bluebird K7" on the return leg of a record-breaking attempt. He then lost control of "Bluebird", which somersaulted and crashed, sinking rapidly. Campbell was killed instantly on impact when decapitated by the K7's
1967 Fireball 300 1967 Fireball 300 The 1967 Fireball 300 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) event that was held on March 7, 1967, at Asheville-Weaverville Speedway in Weaverville, North Carolina. The name of the race was named after Fireball Roberts who died years before this race in a racing accident. This was the historic site of Richard Petty's 50th career in front of nine thousand and five hundred people in what is now known as the "Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series". The average speed of the race was on a paved oval track spanning for three