DOUBLE HONOURS TAKEN
TOURIST TROPHY RACING, TRIUMPH OF -STANLEY WOODS. (British Official Wireless.! Received 1.30 p.m. to-day. RUGBY, June 16. Stanley Woods, who won the Junior Tourist Trophy race, won the -Senior Race to-day for machines of 500 c.e. maximum engine capacity. Woods won the same double honours last year. He rode a Norton motor cycle. Twenty-nine riders contested today’s race over the mountain course at the Isle of Man, a total distance of 264 miles. Foreign competitors were outclassed by Woods who led throughout and finished in three hours 15 minutes 35 seconds, averaging 80.04 miles hourly. Simpson, on a. Norton, was second, averaging 80.41 in.p.h. The lap record was broken three times during the race and now is held by Woods, whose speed for the single circuit is represented as 82.7 miles hourly. Moses, the New Zealand rider, retired in the first lap.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 17 June 1933, Page 9
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145DOUBLE HONOURS TAKEN Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 17 June 1933, Page 9
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