MOTOR RACING.
INTERNATIONAL COMFETITONS. Received July 8, 12.30 p.m. PARIS, July 7. In the Grand Prix motor-race, run at Dieppe, chief interest centred in the Continental competitors. The winner, M. Guyot, covered 288 miles in a Delage-Voirhirettes car, averaging fifty miles an hour. Competition in the Grand Prix de France race enme ofF to-day, the winner being Leutter Schlayer, in a Mercedes car. The ground was uneven. Harrison, an English competitor, in a Weigel car, was overturned into a ditch, and had to be taken to the hospital.
TWO MEN KILLED,
Received July 8, < 11.18 p.m. i PARIS, July 8. The course of the Grand Prix de France was 708 mil»s. The time of Lautten Schlayer, th«i driver of the winning car was 6hrs 45min 43sec. Cissac driving a Panhard-Levassor car, and his mechanician were killed. A tyro burst when the car was going at the rate of 80 miles an hour, and the car ran into trees.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9137, 9 July 1908, Page 5
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158MOTOR RACING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9137, 9 July 1908, Page 5
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