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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

RACINGTM HAZARDS IN ENGLAND.

Hairpin Turns Steep

Hills-Routh Roads.

AN AMERICAN IMPRESSION OF BRITISHI MOTOR RACING.

·Photograph of the home stretch on the Brooklands race track in England showing the hazardous turas around bunkers made by the drivers, Outline of the Shrewsbury track la at lower left,

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London, Aug 18th-When It mild reliefs in an otherwise sirenu-| comes to automobile racing, Amerous course in this country." ca le a tame country.

Leave it to the British and the French to provide the excitement in this game, which goes on almost constantly the year round on this aide of the Atlantic.

For no race is a race in Eng- land unless phyalen) hazards have been put up that fry the stamina and skill of the best drivera. Hair pin turns, are one of these hazards. Bunkers, like those an golf courses, but set at such angles to one and There are race tracks here, with other and so close together as to long straightaways and hanked demand the utmost care and skill turns, aimilar to those on Amer on the part of drivers, are an-j can tracks. But these are only other.

Few "Easy" Races.

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The Brooklands race course is the most popular and most com- monly used of all in the British Isles and Europe. Both British and European cara compete, and races of all sorts are run almost the year round. Hardly a race, however, is straight around the track.

There's a long straightaway and a banked turn, but the home

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As the cars come down the. stretch from the banked turn, they may either meat a series of posts and bunkara, through which they must weave their way cautiously and still as spoedily as possible, or they might have to make a hairpin turn the width of the track itself and come back around another short turn before meeting the straightaway again.

Several times around the track they go, each time meeting theso obstructions and forced to manoeu- vro them as quickly and safely as possible. Races are run for 50, 100 and 200 miles, requiring from 20 to 76 revolutions of the two and A half mile track.

Collisions Are Imminent.

It's a dizzy job which only the best drivers can survive. Many a time, thero's danger of 'a serious collision, at the bunkers, where drivers take short turns and come close together.

Even more. hazardous are the natural coursea set up In England and in parts of the continent. The Le Mans course, over which the races for the French Grand Prix are run, annually, is especially dangerous, for it includes bad roads, steep inclines, difficult túrns and narrow by passes.

Aboit eight miles outside of Shrewsbury, in England, a new course is being laid out that will be the equal of the Le Mans course, if not superior. "Here the road, of ordinary asphalt, rises and falls, makes sharp turns and has long straight stretches, to test the abi- lities of the drivers.

At one point there's an ineline up Forest Hill of from one foot in six, to one in three, and at the Ateepest part, there's a dangerous hairpin curve just as the road be- gins to wind downward.

Turns of All Soris.

Farther on along this course, one foot in 13,

after a fall of there's another sharp turn over a bridge.

SPEED RECORDS.

What Becomes of the Cars?

What becomes of the Studebaker cars that break endurance and speed records is a question often asked by motorists who find it hard to believe that any car, regardless of its durability, can stand up un- der the strain of long austained speed.such as the famous 25,000 miles and still be in condition to run after the grind has been completed.

The best answer is found in a pair of strictly stock Studebaker Commander roadsters, both of which covered 25,000 miles on the Atlantic City speedway at, an average speed of 65.31 miles per hour. Both cars are now in daily service, and both have more than 50,000 miles on their speedometera. One of these famous Commanders is in the hands of Ab Jenkins, who holds the transcontinental record from New York. Harbour to San Francisco Bay, made with a fully equipped stock Commander sedan. The other is serving Ralph Hepburn, the race pilot, who is campaigning the big board speed- ways in quest of the Americas Automobile Association racing championship.

That the Commander loses none of Its championship speed In 'spite of the most severe use was demon- strated not long ago on the boards of the Atlantic City speedway dur- ing the unique tests in which women drivera piloted Studebaker cars in 500 mile cridurance runs.

One of the cars used was Ab Jenkins' Commander roadster. When the first of the four feminine pilots. settled herself behind the wheel for the start of the run, the speedometer registered just 51,650 miles. During the next 388 minutes The Commander proved the old saying that a stout heart knows no age by whirling around the mile and a half board speedway at an average speed of 7.21 miles an hour for 500 miles.

Many times during the run the speedometer 'rolled past the "80" mark. At the end of the run the pilot, who drove the finishing_laps, | was so jubilant over the perform- arice of the car that she kept on go- ing for another- 5 laps, turning them at an average of 82.1 miles an hour just to prove that neither she nor the 'car were the least bit wearled by their experience.

Driven Off.

Though there were 12,529 horeo drawn flaçres registered in Paris In 1900, only 51 of them remain,

Taxis have driven them off the streats... Parisian taxl-drivers nearly scarced a large portion of the A.I.F, to death, so that ́ ́ ́a gentle creature like the horse had little chance of surviving.

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