wonder whether their clocks were accurate or not .
“ I think it will be possible to do 150 km / h on my sidecar ,” commented Kalén after his tremendous success .
This statement became reality later in the year when Kalén set a sidecar record that stood for 20 years , before it was beaten .
The Saxtorp Grand Prix of Sweden was held for the third time back in 1932 , when Kalén started his victorious career on this worldfamous track . Husqvarna had developed two new 500cc machines , which were put into the hands of Kalén and the 24-year old newcomer Ragnar Sunnqvist . After three and a half hours of racing , Sunnqvist beat Kalén with a margin of six minutes . Husqvarna had a double victory on their home turf .
The following year Saxtorp was upgraded and had the status of the European Grand Prix . People came to watch from every corner of the continent . 57 riders from 10 countries competed and the crowd was estimated to be around 150,000 spectators .
Husqvarna had done their homework with updated machines . To the eye you could only tell that the tanks had been revised and now had a capacity of 25 litres each . It was inside the engines however that most of the factory work had been performed by
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