[Bruce Lancaster]

Ford killed stock-car racing in the Elgin Mines field period...someone started a stock series involving stock roadsters, slightly stripped, in '32-34. Engines were torn down and inspected for stockness, though I doubt that this was a very sophisticated inspection...but everything at least had to look right.
Every race was won by Fords, and apparently in some of the races all Fords finished ahead of whatever was next. It was a commercial disaster as there was no actual competition between makes...
At one of the better documented races, a course that was an oval on one side and more of a road course on the other, the winning 1933 Ford was timed at 100MPH on the straight and was lapping at 80.
This is more than a power story...I don't think anyone else had the handling to be driven flat out. Others did have better brakes in many cases...there is a Bugatti quote that would actually be applicable to Ford here!