THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1959.
Foolhardy? - NOT
TONY BROOKS, who at 27 is one of the world's ace racing drivers now lying third in this year's world championships, today faces. the spotlight of "NOTHING BUT, THE TRUTH". The questions are by Terence Feely.
Do you actually enjoy speed?
I enjoy the satisfaction of trying to extract the maximum perform- ance out of a racing car-and that involves going_quickly. But I get no satisfaction out of going 160 mph in a straight. line.
HOW long have you been a driver?
I had a motorcycle when I was 16, and a car licence when I was 17.
WHEN was the first time you excorded 100 mph?
My motor-cycle was capable of nearly 100 mph-but there are only a few times and places where it is safe to do 100 on n public road.
WHAT WIY your first car?
bren
Yes, I take vitamin pills ng Obviously one earns more than part of m* norinal lving the average professional man. routine- case the food I get But travel expenses are high and abroad is deficient in something prize money, is taxable. And vital.
what is really fatal from a tax point of view is that one earns an above-average income over a short space of time.
WOULD
you
通
race
driver's life was an caży one?
No, definitely not, It isn't the glamour most. people think it One constantly parking and unpeeking, especially when there are races on consecutive
visits
Do
Nerves
you
get collywobbles
Only ke before the school sports. One beyond that.
shouldn't suffer.
ME!
Hero, Brooks roars up a hill in a Vanwall during the European Grand Prix in June, 1958,"
plete distortion of an interview. Do you think you look like a My true feelings were that when we had chlidren I should serl- ously consider retiring. racing driver?
My mother niwnys strove hat. eports cars and I used to borrow whatever abe had at the time. I think my first was an M.G. week-ends-and Although cue before a race?
glamorous places, like ARE racing drivers foolhardy?
Mente Carlo for instance, me see anything of them. Very definitely nul. No lead doesn't
stay up inle, can ing racing driver would be alive. You can't
even lie on the today were he foolhardy. It is drink, can't very necessary to realise one's beach in case you get sunburned. mit and stick to it. As for as Imagine rubbing a blistered back the public reads are concerned against a driving seat through- it in difcult to be over-cnutious, out a Grand Prix!
HAVE you ever frightened in a motor car?
easy Oh yes, it's
1. ba frightened. Whenever the unex- pected happens one is frightened. If someone drives through a "Hall" sign across your bows
a tright. you pel
But on the race track you should never be
yout frightened through
ow track ahead is fault. If the
find yourselt clear ond you frightened, it means you're push- ing beyond your ability. In this sense, fear, is a safety valve.
In control
ARE you always fully in con- trol during a race or do you sometimes chance it?
No, I personally belleve one should drive up to the limit of onc's ability If you try to make up for deficiency in ability by sticking your neck out, you're not going to live very long.
WHAT do you weight Stripped, about 10 stone six A DOES a race driver need great muscular strength?
No, because, driving a racing car a very delicate operation. But you do need tremendous physical stamina-and nervous stamina too.
Do you take vitamin pills?
Bad crashes
does the post HOW much blilty of crashing concern you?
II you're driving within your ability it never occurs to you.
HOW many bad crashes have you had?
Two. one 1936 and ene 1957.
at Silversione in al Le Mans in
Mind
ANY signs of a family yet? Yes, I'm happy to say my wife is expecting a baby towards the end of November.
No, I denlicly don't. you, I don't know what a racing driver is supposed to look like or be like. It's a pretty serious business after all, one's leis Involved. The chy deboustr
WON'T you and dentistry a driver of the boys hooks would bit dull when you retire?
very quickly. I'm nfrald. k himself
No, I find dentistry very YOUR wife is Italian-hos e interesting. I'm also consider- over English ing buying a garage so as to keep any advantages
in touch with the motoring girk?
world.
Well, think she's got some- thing no other girl has got--no matter what their nationality!
IS she happy about your
Is it hard to regain your nerve racing? afier a crash?
If
No, not at all. But it depends on the cause of the accident. it were caused by misjudgment on your part, it might be hard, But my crashes were not due to flaws in my ability.
HAVE you any other profes- sion apart from racing?
We take the decision whether to race or not to race, Jointly. Obviously she's a little anxious when I race, but it she wore unhappy I would not race.
19 It fair for a racing driver to get married?
Unfair
до
It would be unfair if the man corkealed his intention 10 racing from his bride-rossly unfair. But my wife and I de- a cided I would race this season hefore ever we got married. would not have got married for a time had I not thought it fair, Is it trie you decided not to have any children until you re- tire from racing?
My real profession is dental I don't get a chance surgeon. to work at it in summer-but 1 de in winter, in hospitals.
WHAT are
Ike 19 you passenger?
Very good, with someone I know can drive well and sately. But if ever I get into a car with someone who decides to show me how good he is, I get out at the first set of traffic lights.
15 racing a lucrative profes- sion?
No, this is absolutely untrue. This le something which has gained currency due to a
comTM
ARE you supertilious? No.
DOES
she
driving lessons?
I can
that way. argue during I'm made
put my feet up and have 40 winks in the pits before a race. WHAT do you think of the general standard of driving in Britain?
No, she doesn't argue. Is there such a thing as a natural driver?
Oh, very much so, I don' think anyone can ever be a real- ly great driver unless he's a natural to start with. There's a limit to what can be done by ex- perience and practice and push- ing oneself.
A faith
HAVE you a faith?
Yes, my wife and I are both
HAVE you taught your wife Catholics, to drive?
This is a more point. We've made starts, but we've been so busy and abroad so much that we haven't really got very far, But it's got high priority.
POP-Off his Ticker
Rs 16 (p*
E227
DO you pray before a race? I pray dally-but not especial- ly before a rece or for success in
& Tace.
Better
Funnily enough, in relation to the amount of trafe and the inadequacy of the roads I think it is very high especially com- pared with Continental drivers. it Continental drivers had to drive on our roads the accident rate would shoot up.
Do you think motor racing spectators come along expecting a crash?
I can't generalise. There is an outer fringe at any spectacle which comes along for thrills but not necessarily to see any
CAN. you relax? Fortunately I can relax easily one hurt.
en
BRIDGE
con
How would you go about play- This play gives you a chance ing today's handt Don't to get into your own hand for reply, **Lindor
assumed the heart finesse. You name," oven though you thor- play a low spade and Easi'w bost bughly disapprove of the bid- defence is to play low. ding
You win with the queen of trumpa and lead the queen of hearts. If West covers you win in dummy and play a second trump. If East ducks you repeat the' inesse and play the last trump from dummy,
Anyway, you árc in apades and the defente
four takes
NORTH (D)
•
AABJ
VAJ10032
AX 20
a
WEST
❤K70 +39 02
AKQ7
EAST
K62 ❤94
Q1087 410834
BOUTH
AQJIOON #Q5
+548
J32
East and West vulnerable
North
1
3
East will take his king now and throw you back In dummy with a diamond whereupon you will ruff a heart to get back to your own hand, draw the last trump and go over to dummy with the other top diamond,
Simple enough but also pretty lucky. Most players would have pansed North's opening best bid.
East Senth
Wert
Pass I A
Pass
Para
Pam
2
PATS
Par
Paza Opening lead-♣ K
and continuMGA two chub tricks with a third club which you have to ruff in dummy. If you want to make the hand you must ruff with the ace of trumps.
QUOTE
by the Rev. Edward Saville, vicar of Holy Trinity, Ilkeston, Derbyshire:
10
WILLJOY religion has dona a A great deal of harm Christianity. There are religious bodies which have condemned such thing a pabe, playing cards on Sunday, having a bob on the Derby, and so on. There is no moral difference between spending 6d, on a raffle and Gd. on a bar of chocolate.
by the Rev. John Salusbury Brewis, Rector of St. James's, Piccadilly:-
YOUR
♥*CARD SerICRO
Pix
Q-The bidding has been: North Fait Boath West
14
Pasa 1 You, South, hold: AKIRT VS #854 'ARQB 64
What do you do?
Fasi
A---Pass, You don't like hearta but can't rebid spades and are not strong enough to go to the three level.
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding two hearts your partner has jumped to three apades. What do you do now?
Answer Monday
CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
No. 1782)
political opponent Here la s problem by 8. remains your "neighbour." Hertzsprung (National tidende. You have no temporary lloence 1884), White to play and mate
election during an
to spread in three moves.
Solution No. 5701: _1...Qx R: false accumtions as to his moral character, however much you 21QXR, Q-R1 ch Resigns. dislike his political opinion.
By Gog
SCÓN FIND OUT
IF IT'S REALLY.
WATER PROGE
NÓW WELL
London Express Service.
IN THE UNITED STATES THEY PLAY THE SAXOPHONE
AND THEY DRINK
Carlsberg
217
Parabolic underve at klemtmit. Prawy
Jar whag morgy vitensk
FOUR D. JONES
THE BATTLE OF BAROKNMPPING IS NOW FORGOTTEN... A NEW FIGHT 19 ON A FIGHT BETWEEN NATIONS
FOR THE OWNERSHIP OF THE CANAL, BUT, WHO CHRYS THAT OTHER SHIP-KNY CHARLEND AU ARE HERE? WHOS.COMING
IT'S
OURS
IT AIN'T!
THIEF!
LIAR!
LLAR! FIB
BANDIT!
WE OWNIT!.
DON'T
DO!
DON'T
IF ANYONE
by MADDOCKS
GORMAN LOOK
CHINESE CHALE STEPS
ASHORE, HOW STOR WRVING THIS CANAL, ITSME. | THAT FILÁGAN
BUTT
I THA PREPARED TO SELL AT THE RIGHT LETS QUI FORT
PRICE.
ASHORE...
HOLD
17/
The secret of
UNIVERSAL energy is the movement
The efficiency of the new MICROTOR movement is so micked an improvement that it it the world s smallest automalle weich rolor, builds up to two days' power téseive.
Developed in our research laboratories and exclusively Universal's, the MICROTOR movement la the greatest technical advance in self-winding watches in 30 years: for roburimis. Jyle and above isti accarney – the new Universal POLEROUTER 16 the watch of the futura,
Timing every 9A5 flight, the POLEROUTER has proved itself over the pole and around the world.
MICROTOR is what makat
.
the famous "POLEROUTER, Visk
Polerouter fantuári
• 100% Automatic Movement MICROTOR
• 28 Jewels
ד'
• Tested waterproof case
• Antimagnetic alloys
»-Up to two days" inserve powde
Resistance to shacks
'e This, handsome styling
available in three models:
stainless steel
ervei gold cover 300 microns
FERD'NAND
10k gold-
Bob Agam for Hong Kong & Kingsbury,
NEW
Lady Sheaffer
""AKKİPTERT", FOUNTAIN PEN
Never Before--fonnial pen to expres your persona! sante la dne jewelry. Never ges Beer as fok bottle...
towe drop-in cartridgen uf Skrip witting fuld.
UNITED PAPER COLATO
WELL · ALL THE... YOU
GAME HERS TO PORT JONES THE CANAL EXISTED
LET ALONE,OWN IT!.
NOT MIRË THEY ON tar COLL
JONES ANOGORMAN
WE SEAT AS AN ADVANCE PARTY TO
CLAIM THIS CANAL AS
CHINESE.
By Mik
Bankers prefer
UNIVERSAL
GENEVI
BRICK BRADFORD
YOURD BUAP · YOU'VE TOLD AB EVERYTHING, FULL LEAVE NOW TO" PREPARE CUM
-CASB)
I HOPE YOURE
A GENIUS, LAWYER- MANI I'LL SEE YOU INEQU
TOMORROW
THE FOLLOWING MOANING,
BRICK JE TAKEN FROR HAS CELL AND IN 180 TO
WHAT IS THIS 7- THIS CANT BE
COURTROOM
By Paul Norris
THERE IS SO MUCH PUBLIC INTEREST IN THIS TRIAL IT HAP TO BE HELD HERE TO ACCOMMODATE, THE THRONGGI
"LAP HENG CO, LTD. Sin Marina House, Hong Kong)
James Chs. Chammbine Court, Kimberley Sand.
DANE BANCI & One Lily zarover bronen tekan Ba
·TA PHASERS BALTO ASSURE AMikko Krušní, Fina