TRIPOLI GRAND PRIX
DESERT -MOTOR EACE
WON BY ITALIAN IN RECORD TIME
(Received May 7, 2 p.m.)
TRIPOLI, May 0. An Italian, Achille Varzi, driving an Alfa Romeo, won tho Tripoli .Grand Prix for the, second successive year, after a terrific struggle, by one-fifth of a second. Guy* Moll, a Frenchman, was secondhand Louis Chiron, of Monaco, third. They also drove Alfa Romeos. The race was run over forty laps, equal to 5350 miles, over a. specially-prepared triangular desert track. Varzi "s average was approximately 116 miles an hour, the fastest ever recorded for a road circuit. -In a gigantic sweepstake, an'.ltalian, who drew .Varzi, received £112,000. The second prize, £50,000, and the third, £25,000,-also went to Italians.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 10
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118TRIPOLI GRAND PRIX Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 10
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