RACING TRAGEDY
ON BROOK'IANDS SPEED TRACK i-’. 1 1 Press Association —By 'Electrio - Teltgraph—Copyright) * 7 ... I (Received this day at 9.10 a.m.) Tl LONDON, September 17. The third tragedy at Brooklandg within two days occurred, when a , car driven by M. Watson, in a 500 miles race, travelling ninety miles an hour, somersaulted and burst into .flames. Watson was flung twenty yards, with a fractured skull, and was burned in blazing petrol. He died in the hospital. Rs wife wit* , nested the accident. •' v The race was Avon,by ,E. R. Hall, in a MG Magnette, which averaged 106.53 m.n.h. C. E, Martin, in a '.MG Magnea. with 92.24 m.p.h. . was. * second, and Cyril .Paul,, with a Riley did 88.87 m.p.h. to get> third.
BABY CAR’S WORLD RECORD RUGBY, .September • 15. While practising for the racing drivers’ 500 miles race to-be held at Brooklands to-morrow Captain Eyston,driving an M.G. Midget,, established three new world records for a baby car including 100 kilometres at 106.72 miles per hour. The M.G. car now holds all the baby car records up to twenty-five hours.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1933, Page 4
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180RACING TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1933, Page 4
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