1931-06-13 — Page 13

THE HONGKONG

GREAT PHYSICAL STRAIN.

Gear-Changing Muscular Blisters Caused by Effort in Race of 1,000 Corners.

of work! Help copt."

IL

"Come on, pit staff! Do a spot; disappointment with cheery

77372 with this smile,, he walked back to the pits.

First he took a long draught of Lord Howe, Britain's premier minoral water from a bottle be had motor-racing.peer, stood with his hidden behind his spare crash back towards me, writes "Grunde helmet. Then, brightening a little, Vitonse," his shoulders hunched he uncorked a bottle of champagne awkwardly and hike forvarms caught "Have vom medfeine?" he asked, in the sleeves of an old blue jacket: Jollering my ą glass,

"I can't even put my own cont "How do you trafu fur this

"You've no race? (faquired, nn," he explained. idea how stil 1 feel. My shoulders ache like blazen.”

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that never get ended noon ordinary way,

"Well, to begin with.

TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1931.

WHERE GRAVITY

FAILS.

Experience?

that's 630 corners in just over two the most beautiful thing I've ever hours. And, don't forget that this seen. So graceful. Just like an le a race and that

one tries to aeroplane rocking in the breeze. A corner as fast as one can!"

movement to the left, another to la shifted his position. "My the right and he's round and away. thigh muscles acle, too; most unlle doesn't seem to skid the car; Explanation of Curious comfortable. The position in this he just makes it float..... new Bug's not quite nurmal. One's "And have you acen him change i legs are posted rather to one side. gear?" he continued. "He holds By love! I'm thirsty!" he con- the gear lever between his first tinued, "All the way round one Buger and thumb, like a precious breathes dust and the fumes from stone. He's so beautifully preting the exhaust, of the man

in front. in everything that he do?s.' Coming down the hill to the station, when everyone's going slowly, it's frightful,”

were

"Zehender told me that," I put in and be asked if you pretty tough.""

Lord Howe gave me a quizzical

look.

|

"What about the others?", asked.

STRANGE SENSATION.

For a strange sensation a visit should be made to the Ayrshire coast for the purpose of expert- 12

the Inexplicable fent of nelling against gravity without any form of "All driving very well indeed.

of motive power. The think one or two of them must sophisticated or gredulous will have been a bit surprised at the remark in a superior manner of way I took the sharp right-hand optical illusion, but this is not a mider the railway arch, where one case of a marble apparently run- Ining up a table in a house where comes downhill to the sen-wall. "Tough?” he repealed.

pernen. discovered that the pavement was a the walls are out of the "Yes, Hard. Physically ft. better surface in accelerate from, dieular owing to subsidences. The I give up this stuff" tapping the bottle-aid no one who wasn't in perfect so I always took that corner wide experiment is made on an open

Just through the "But didn't you tell me yound any drink except.

water. condition conld

on purpose, so that i Anished up on rond close to the sea shore and The footpath. I noticed Then race short though it is." trained for this show?” I prerled. [haven't ¿moked for months.

all the way from high banks or sur- "Oh, I agree, I hadn't train-Continental drivers kept to the rounding undulations which might "Trained? You. And jolly Pve been very careful about my strentiously. Did overything short food. I haven't varied very much jed I'd never have been able to rond, and I think I did it on them tend to form a means of deception.

This race really does there."

Travelling from Ayr along the of a two-miles sprint before break the sort of things 1 eat from one stand it. fast every morning. 1 ford as day to the next. I've gone to bed give you something to think about,"

"By the way," said Lord Howe,coast road to Turnberry, passing Doon, n fickle.

He was wearing a pair of brown But this endless early and I've kept very regular cornering makes me use muscles hours for meats and fool, I really gloves with thin kid palms and silk you alight to have seen Caracciola, the picturesque Brig

on the big Mercedes, coming down which in itself repays any length In the have trained, os well as I know crochet hacks. I noticed that they the steep hill by the Knickerbocker of fourney for a visit, the cur

how."

showed very little signs of wear. night club! He actually used the should be stopped and the engine Those any good?" I asked. blower to Increase his speed, alswitched off, fifty yards past the ninth milestone from Ayr. દશ The best yet. They're golfing though the road was straight for releasing the brakes, which will "Not quite so much us I though!|gloves, you know. I jet 'em nt only about 50 yards at a time, and

have been used to arrest the pro- it was going to," he repifed.

. They save one's hands a there's the gradient to consider.

gress of the car, the driver will "Oh! Why not?"

whole help. I don't mind betting

"Even Baillet's Peugeot it's find he is procending backwards you that half the boys in this race eight years old, by the way-was up hill without any apparent ren- have blistered hands merely as a putting up a wonderful show. Doison, and with alightly increasing result of changing gear.“

you know that he was actually speed, until the milestone Tater I was to see the hands of overtaking nearly all the sungain renched. Varzi and Zehender. They, too "I was poing to ask yon." bad worn gloves, but of the "Well, twice! Once by die sen-Jordinary type Thele palms were A wall, coming through the tunnel mass of painful blisters

"How does Chiren drive?" by the pigeon-shooting, and one

long her, past the pits. I almost asked. think I could just do the p

I followed "Simply beautifully. to the Casino on top gear, but him for several laps, and while I daron risk trying."

did so I was two or three seconds a lap faster myself; He ukes him eurners without

lightest hellation and slow down for them.

"How many tape linve Ilone, } And have you enjoyed yourself Thomas?" he continued, turning to so far?" asked.

hia

mechanic

"Sixty-three, sir."

on

"Sixty-three

feel

us though I've done a hundred and sixty-three....

Lord Howe's Plt in the firand Prix of Monaco.

The serm was Lord Howe pit in the Grand Prix of Monaco, We! hud to shout in each other's ears, for we were both nearly deafened by the continous carsplitting one from the exhausts of pussing ears.

For 24 hours Lord Howe had driven his new Bogatii magnificent- ty, holding his own among half a dozen of the leading racing drivers in Europe. He append certain of! finishing among the first four. when suddenly his main oil pipe

"don't know.

Too many Par un the cotarse. Dimult to get going. Gour-changing all the Viene. Do you know how often 15 get lato "top" on each lap?”

must be very ring...

Muscular Cramps From Gear-Shifting.

"Hi. My right arm aches from

broke, and the engine seized solid ¦ rear-changing. My left arm webes just as he changed gear for the from steering round All those Kasometer hair-pin. There was corners. Let me sen. Ten corners

thever

"Beautifully Precise in

Everything."

to

"The way he takes the double

nothing to be done and, hiding his per lap, and I've done 63 laps; turn up by the Casian gardens is

霸

charged racing cars going up the The local drivers say the extra- hill to the Casino? But, of course, ordinary non-observance of the we scored for the rest of the way," awe of travity is due to ground

or electrical disturb Conversation lapsed. Someone, myrnel ic elimbing over the plt counter, had fances, and such a vague reason will perhaps satisfy the astonish- claimed Lord Howe's attention,

Later, whened tourist who is curious enough had my work to do.

the crowd to verify the uncanny phenomenon. the race was over and

C.S.MLĂ, Gazette. caught A İsyaded the course, glimpse of a big blue Mercedes, with Lord Howe at the wheel and his Bugatti in tow, picking its way through the tarong,

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