The day was still young, though. 18 minutes after McDonald popped the 100 mph champagne cork, enter Herbert Bowden. Like Ross, Bowden hailed from Massachusetts, but he drove a German car - a modified 90 HP Mercedes twin-engine he dubbed "the Flying Dutchman." At the end of his run, Bowden was the new land speed king of the hill at 109.76 mph.
It was a matter of dispute, however: the French FIA refused to recognize his achievement because the car weight over 1000 kg. Ah, those damn bureaucrat Frenchies and their insistence on ruling everthing with dumb arbitrary metric system rules. I don't care, that was still recognized a world record by the competing ACF (Automobile Club de France).
Weirdly, the FIA disallowed both the Napier and Mercedes records because of their dumb weight limit, and still considered Ross's Wogglebug the champ.