MOTOR RACING
BRITISH 400 MILE EVENT
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, '/ LONDON,; October A: : ''.British racing drivers’ -'chib’s.. five hjlUdred-niiles handicap .race at Bro°kwas ..won, by, S'. C. Davies in; a Rfj|»y) Austin y withten. average speed miles-.per hour. : i’Ji ; D; ! Benjafieid in a Reiitly; did j1%12 m.p.h. t Hi iS W. Purdy (Sunio4.7s! m.p.h.; \ Earl Howe OT&lbot) ' 104.26 V-. nup.b. x The track w|&; soaked 'by tain.' - •
: There were .83 starters,. ~ Y. / / firkin, diving a : Bentley, chalwas forced to pull out through engine trouble,. Benjafieid then took up-.the naming lending 122 miles per hour, In » thrilling duel between the' big and ■mall oars, the Austin maintained the lend, and won by a -matter pf-minutest Davis’s, ekllful swerving oyeried ,a .... disaster,-.i irhen a rear wheel,vsbed. by: ■- hi* ;;Frey'»Delage ftre,6iit/be' leajpt ;out and whpeid _ with ■ burnt hande. // /
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1930, Page 2
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