RIDERS' PLUCK
GRAND PRIX WINNER LONDON, Wednesday. Extraordinary pluck and determination were shown by Mr D. J. Pirie. a young London architect, who in the Isle of Man yesterday won for the second year the Junior Grand Prix motor cycle race, at an average speed of nearly 70 miles an hour. Pirie last week crashed badly, and was taken to hospital. He emergecl yesterday to compete in the race or a Velocette machine against forty others. Despite his injuries he established several records on an extremely difficulf course, which was 226 miles long. He won by nearly five minutes, and then collapsed completely, and was taken back to hospital.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 16, 11 September 1931, Page 3
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