By Piet Olyslager, 1963. In 1904, his year of triumph on the record scene, de Caters also had his first victory in ten years of motor racing. Baron de Caters snatched the record in a year which saw no fewer than five changes of title of fastest man, the keenest competition since the 1899 battle between the two electric giants, Jenatzy and Chasseloup-Laubat.
