IRISH TOURIST TROPHY
TRIUMPH FOR BABY CARS. ENGLISH MOTORIST WINS. [United Press Association.—By Electric ' Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, August. 23. The Irish Tourist Trophy contest resulted :
N. Black, "Shrs 13min 54sec, 67.9
m.p.h. 1 B. Borzncchini, slirs 17ini» 3sec,
79.05 m.p.li S. A. Crabtree, 51irs 17niin Bsec,
67.62 m.p.h.
There was a thrilling contest over the famous Ards circuit of 410 f miles. In the presence of nearly half a million spectators, including Spanish exroyalties, English peers and peei esses, and the Governor of Northern Ireland, the world’s fastest motpr-cars, blazed, flamed, skidded and crashed through hedges. A stand containing sixty spectators collapsed, many being injured. The contest ended in a triumph for the baby cars, the Englishman winning after a headlong contest with the Italian. Last year’s winner, the Ttalian ace, Nuvolari, retired with a seized piston. Sri, Henry Birkin broke nil lap records, at first with 79.79 miles an hour, 80 miles an hour and at last 89 miles an hour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1931, Page 6
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