THE LAST FLAG.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 12 March 1927, Page 7

THE LAST FLAG.

i — i-.0 ■ml — ■■ . Oue of Ihe greatest racing motorists in the world, J. G. • Parry 1 Thomas- has taken the last flag. His specialty was track racing. Ile was the embodiment of mathematieal efficiency and • mechanical , knowledge; he worked 10 hours a I day on his car for every 10 minutes j he spent at the wheel. His whole life was entirely devoted to engineering problems; he liad no nerves, because he was a1 tireiess machine. His driving had not that marvellous ihythm and glorious "sweep" of Major II. O. D. Segrave's; in a road race over an indifferent course he yvonld be left miles in fhe rear. But on the track, Parry Thomas and his gigantic "Babs" were forces to be ' '.'eclconed with. " i He had found out all there was ' lo know aboht track-racing; he .knew all there was to know, both theoretically and practically. about his car, and knew to within a hair's breadth every angle and camber of the surface on which he was • racing. No detail was too little for j him to study. Parry Thomas was the complete embodiment of efficiency. A broken chain.