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Motorsports news and commentary page from 'The Autocar' magazine, discussing various races and events.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90a\1\ Scan033 | |
| Date | 7th September 1934 | |
| September 7th, 1934. The Autocar. 421 THE SPORT BY CASQUE (CONTINUED) Donington DONINGTON, by the way, should be good. Lord Howe's Delage, Raymond Mays and Cook with E.R.A.s, Turner on a single-seater Austin, Freddie Dixon with a Riley, Staniland with a Riley, Lindsay Eccles with a Bugatti 1,500, Handley with a Magnette, E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} R.{Sir Henry Royce} Hall with a Midget, Everitt with a Midget, Rayson with a Bugatti, Evans with a Midget, and Martin with a Magnette, have all accepted invitations for one race, while Lord Howe, Dixon, Staniland, Martin and Mays have accepted for the second race as well, Lord Howe with the Bugatti. Alpine Trial Checks ONE way or another, organisers of big trials on the Continent seem to be making one's life much more complicated than it need be. Take the Alpine, for example. Two years ago you had a definite speed schedule, you were due in at a control at a definite time, could be five minutes late without penalty and without alteration to the schedule. The following year they simplified it a bit further by a mark some distance before the control to show exactly how far away that control was. But in this year's Alpine a competitor could go into the control without his car, study the official clock until it was certain his machine was due in, then go and get it, but in the process, of course, that car would arrive a minute or so late. This should not have mattered, because a five-minute late limit was allowed, but for some curious reason if a competitor arrived one minute after his schedule time, the schedule for the next control was altered by one minute, and he had therefore to work out his route card times again. It sounds, of course, a very little matter, but the point is why is it necessary, for it merely adds complication, and in the circumstances of a trial it is only too easy to make a mistake when altering the route card schedule. 'Gin Palaces' MOST of us are annoyed from time to time by the repetition of a slander that the sports car and the sports car driver are the real peril of the roads, chiefly because that sort of statement shows the ignorant bias of the man who makes it, a bias that is as old as motoring. Anyhow, there is a certain individual who has a house with a nice fine boundary wall to the garden, on a corner where a side road leads into a main road, and somewhere down the side road is one of those cheerful little affairs where people can have no end of a good time up to two o'clock in the morning. Five times has that wall been demolished after midnight by drivers of most erratic type, and each time the car involved was one of those lovely palaces on wheels where you cannot have any air, you cannot see the country, but you can have knick-knacks and gadgets innumerable and armchairs for every passenger. Incidentally, the house owner is now building a reinforced concrete wall rather reminiscent of a Flanders pill-box, and if any tin saloon succeeds in doing anything more with that than reducing itself to a mass of scrap, he will be quite surprised. Next Sunday at 2.30 p.m. the Talbot Owners' Club is holding a gymkhana at Hanworth aerodrome, to which all Talbot owners, whether members of the club or not, are invited. M.C.C. at Brooklands TO-MORROW the M.C.C. has its annual Brooklands meeting, and the first one-hour high speed trial will commence at 11.0 a.m. During the rest of the day there will be a series of two-lap handicaps and one-lap scratch races, while at 3.30 p.m. a second one-hour high speed trial for cars will take place. Then at the end of the day there will be a three-lap team relay event, the last event for cars taking place at 6.50 p.m., so that a full day's sport will be provided. There are 103 car entries in the high speed trials, 80 in the two-lap handicaps, and 73 in the one-lap scratch races. The admission charge for non-members is 2s. 6d. (children 1s. 6d.), with 2s. 6d. charge for a car alongside the track. On Sunday the Italian Grand Prix will be held on a new circuit at Monza, which has been constructed to eliminate the dangerous sections where last year regrettable accidents occurred, involving the deaths of Campari, Borzacchini, and Count Czaykowski. It seems probable that there will be another great struggle between the Italian and the German cars, for both the Auto-Union and the Mercedes teams are down to run, as well as the Ferrari Alfa-Romeos and a team of Maseratis. Apart from other events, the Germans won on their own ground at Nurburg, and the Italians on neutral soil at Montlhéry, so this encounter in Italy will, as it were, decide the rubber. Image Captions: WELL-KNOWN TRIALS DRIVERS Mrs. C. L. Clayton, wife of the famous Brighton organiser, and at one time herself a successful competitor with Amilcar, Frazer Nash, and Ford cars. A.{Mr Adams} Von der Becke and E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} McLure lead a string of Rileys at Duntonald Footer: G 4 | ||