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THE FINEST ENGLISH RACE,
Dramatic Struggle Against Italian Car.
DRIVER'S · STORY OF CONTEST.
man's experience out of many, and came up the banking for anfety, by nó móâns necessarily the most matters became unpleasantly con [oxciting at that. Without the gested, and I had to cut out at the slightest wish to suggest that the end of tho plís, instead of under methods adapted are necessarily the bridge across the finishing the best, it is exceedingly dificult straight. This was annoying, as to avoid a tinge of the pedagogic. relatively, the Alfas worn not so But, as comparisons are always much affected. interesting, it is difficult to leave Fortunately, the rain gave up ils out one's method of doing things,tell work just when I was wonder if only just for the amusement of ing how the deuce one could drive fother drivers.
without being able to sea through First of all I think it was in the windscreen, or round it, ahd A Bentley, driven by 8. C. IL Below will be found Mr. Davis's Davis, was second in the double story of his Brookland's race every possible way a magnificent when every other car had such a twelve hours race at Brooklands against Ramponts winning Alface, not because Brooklands track backwash of spray. that all you is an interesting place to drive on, could nee of it were the crew's isst month. Incidentally a team of Romeo, a story fold in "The but just because of the Intense heads. Anyhow, we had lost a lot Cour Bentleya havo alnico been Autocar." placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th in the A driver's narrative of a race is, foxcitement of the battle between of valuable time, but we made up
and can only be, personal, just one my team and the Alfa Romeos, and some of it on refilling at the p French Grand Prix,
the particular fight between that and went up a little in revs. splendid sportsman Ramponi and well.. jmyself.
A Fine Battle."
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with Rampont and Ivanowski, or day.
with the Salmson; the Rileys had Then there was another joke. boon dangerous, and would be For tactical reasons I took on an more so in their next race; so far eight-hour spell, after six hours of curate. Moreover, No. 6 was in hungry, but had nothing to eat on our (the Bentley) charts were ac- which Head and I felt desperately capital condition, just about ripe, board except throat lozenges, that is, good for 4,000 r.p.m. at need which are unsatisfactory as food, and with heaps of brake adjust though good enough for the arid ment in hand. It had run ex-dryness which afflicts every driver traordinarily well. It consumed after a time. Naturally, when we rather more tyres than we had an-stopped at the pit the second time ticipated, but it was as atendy as a drink was worth a king's ransom, a rock at 104-105 m.p.h, and one but due to my having no voice loft, cautious experiment showed that it would go up to 107 m.p.li., and aven more, If required by the signals from the pit
Meantime we were getting where
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929.
none as we took over for the lasi exciting spell,
Banking a Sheer Joy.
Accumulator Bax Broken.
But Ramponi had his troubloa, too, for the Alfa Romeo's accumla-
Worthily did No. 6 respond. On tor box broke loose, and for twe the Byfleet banking the needle rounds we passed the little car wont loadily, 3,200, 3,490, 3,500 stationary at its pit. The sight then off the banking at 8,760 8,800) wound me up to such extent that 1 (about 107 or 108 m.p.h.). Down took the corner at 3,000 or third] the finishing straight to the bridge and nearly scared myself into a the great car was alive.
photographer who leaned calmly over the banking top and fired a camera within what seemed two feet of my face.
Just beyond the bridge. I cut out, braked heavily, turned a little, ne colerated, changed to third, then, gradually oponing the throttle, went straight through at 2,800, Then came another bother. With about 60 mp.h., to complete the turn high on the banking, gather an hour more to go I discovered a white strip on the tread of the Ing speed by driving down the slope at once. It was like a climb starboard rear tyre, which one ing turn on a fast 'plano.
could see clearly by looking back] as we accelerated after the turn.
Thus we continued round after
Critical Moments,
Just Lost.
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The Friday's show was interest- Curiously, it was not as fast a Hing only in a minor way, bocause day as the Friday, for the wind toarn tactics made twelve hours had shifted, and, whereas we got round, and as the car settled down it was not a nies sight. But any just a succession of sparrings for 8,500 rpm. at the end of the mile to real speed we watched out for how, we couldn't possibly stop or position. But at the end of them timing box on Friday, we could the little red Alfa, and, with lap slow if all the tyres bad: gone our stratagical plan was prayed only gob up to that near the end scorer and watch, ontimated our funny; and I had an odd fooling sound for the real danger then lay of the Byfleet banking on Satur-gain is we ran. It really was that it would last.
rather wonderful. Head signalled the oil pressure regularly to the
I hoped, "W.O.," the team Patron, pit, we crouched as low in the car wouldn't see it, and wished liko as we could, tilted the two little blazes the pit would show the "all turn on to the home banking be difference to the tyre, anyway, and sorcons to an acute angle, and the cut" signal. It would make a
the constant repetition of "0.L" came sheer joy.
didn't seem to meet the situation, as we calculated things from the There was no time now to be car white Head fed em with bull's- extra cautious in passing people; syes of a particularly vicious we had to get through, whether brand. We oven got to 3,900 down things were close or not. How the straight, which is most inspir wished that mechanics would looking, but orders are orders, and nobody could understand what I back as the Bentley came down the 4,000 was left alone. wanted. Eventually I croaked straight at 108 m.p.h. between "Water" and was Instantly hand-other cara and the railings. One Jed the disgusting jug which we just hoped these other cars would
Half an hour from the finish--it Then It Rained,
used for refilling the radiator; not swervol
seemed an impossible time-the ofl The start on the Saturday was thereafter I gave it up as hopeless, beautifully exact. We had arrang-
Ramponi was going great guns, pressure gauge went to zero on the jed beforehand certain things we wanted, save that at eighteen too, for the signal at his pit stood barking flickered, went to 20 at which helped the engine enormous hours we had not got the lead as in the faster position round after, thekered again. Five rounds y, and the car was ambled round we had hoped to have, and we only round with his Initial "R" below later its maximum was at 2,000 revs. on top, until my headed Ramponi at nineteen hours, was fine to see him use his were running out of oil, and Head advantage had already let in the reserve sup- mechanic Head'a algnals to the pit but that seemed satisfactory, and head to take every showed them that the temperature the run so far had been good, hard Never for a second did the red ply. Well, if we burst, we burst, Alfa get in the way; always he or but at all events we would burst in and elt pressure were right and driving, really worth white.
his mechanic signalled us to pass, style. The engine never faltered. the pit signal told us to get on An Unpopular Rollet. with the job. Thereafter we could A little after the twentieth hour and, as we passed, desperately he tried to tuck in behind to get our
Ton minutes from the end we did open up and the car really began we were called in and relieved, and alip stream and be "towed." If not know whether we had caught to move, everything running like a were not as pleased about it as clockwork mouse, and the revs, well-disciplined crew should be, passed just aftor the turn he could the Alfa enough times or not, the cut-off point, and change up vary because I was just fealing comfort-do this all the way to the Byfleet tyre looked bad, the oil gauge ing exactly in response to pit table, and Hond, though hungry, banking and drop off exactly as we reading was intensely depressing. "Five minutes from the end-and signale,
would go on for ever. In any case,
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cach second" scammed an hour- Then it began to rain. There is it would not have been fülr to nothing I loathe more than rain, Gunter, whom I had already robb- successfully, to go to the very top luck if we cracked up then, had and what had been quite com-ed of most of his legitimate share of the banking and shake him off another bull's eye and wondered fortable and enjoyable ride became of enjoyment, and who was driving curve we really did it in the first whether I should over be able to depressingly exciting. The first capital first race and taking time I have seen this corner as sit down again. intimation of this excitement woe things seriously, exactly ለጹ n front and rear wheel skid which ninety-nine drivers
they do in pictures, all four of us of a
Then, at last, the chequered flag, unded with a bump into the sand hundred do not. And he had an the two cars leaning right out a puff of smoke on the right, and bank, shot a huge cloud of and rotten spell, for a tyre collapsed on and taking it all we knew as we throttled down, the bang of into the air and into the car- the turn. That was an awful Gradually we overtook the Alfa then maroon high up. We had finish- swallowod a lot but did no moment, since the machine was right number of times, and matters ed; it was a great moment. When damage other than to remove our much overdue, and most of us in wors-looking hopeful when some we reached the pit I had a look at starboard accumulator box lid, the pit were nearly sick with ap- confounded person-quito rightly the tyre, and it didn't Reem BD which was already loose. The prehension before it limped in from his point of view-algnalled good; then, after the usual photo- trouble was that the Byfleet bank-slowly with a hairy caterpillar of us in because our loose bonnet clip raphic stunts, went off to see ing was much drler than the forn, loose cord on the near rear wheel allowed the side of the bonnet to Ramponi just in time to hear that lift a little, though, lifting, it was he had won and we had lost by no and I hadn't realized how hard it rim, was raining, ao, rather stupidly, "In the meantime, Ramponi had fuly secured by the strap, and more than 200 yards each hour.
there is no regulation requiring| was caught napping.
boon going well,, and was quite a way ahead on formula with lessonnet clips. That entailed one than two hours to go. Then I re-alow lap, a stop to refix the bonnet ceived orders which resulted in the clip, one standinga-start Jap, a finest battle I have over had bar benntly waste of time at such
An Uncomfortable Job. From then onward we seened to have akids all over the place, and, all the small cars promptly
oui
reached 102.
In that way. On the aandbanked
crisis.
He thoroughly deserved it, and we had a most interesting talk over things that only he and I know in all the world about those inst two rounds.
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