MOTOR CAR RACING

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1931, Page 5

MOTOR CAR RACING

A DRAMATIC FINISH.

[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ]

(Received this day at 9.25 a.m)

LONDON, June k.

A thunderstorm provided a dramatic interlude to the Irish International Grand i’rix at Phoenix Park; the ah ne of super charged ears rising above the thunder, and lightning dazzlingly playing on the racing gaints, as the drivers kept up tbe.r breakneck speed Nine competi torkpeovered three hundred miles in seventyflaps.

.Sir 11. Bit kin in an Alla-Roineo averaging 88.8 miles per hour won. The Italian Cainpara was second three minute's later, after an astonishing effort. Campara in trying to pass Birkin was half blinded by a piece of glass from a broken goggle. He suddenly swerved madly but immediately regained control and thrilled the spectators by carrying on for two and a half miles at full speed with one hand at the steering wheel and the other on his injured eye. He drove like n man possessed, once actually passing Birken, but be skidded one hundred yards on a locked wheel, hut amnzngly avoided disaster. Earl Howe broke the lap record with a speed of 91.8, driving a Mercedes Benz.