Motor Cycling RECORD WIN BY SURTEES

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29235, 20 June 1960, Page 15

Motor Cycling RECORD WIN BY SURTEES

JlOmiSl AKvUiIV. littvincK A Item QOUffLAB crf Man), Juns lt. l kffiaijtoJiljn'n. won the MB e’.e. yesterday on an Italian • .wSJIRIISwI* It waa his third successive victory —making him the first rider to win toto'cvent three times in a row. J Surtees covered the six laps of ST| -Trine t total distance of 2261 miles —to Shr iSmln 35.toec. an average speed of 108.44 m.pA. Altogether, it wss the fourth victory few Surtees in the race, putting him level With the Dishman. Stanley had avenged mon than 100 m.pli. f<w WwmSm hS hto’**"* SaiHSSS out race record. Third was another <Bg*aey) flushed fourth, fifth and Both Hallwood and D.Minteralso on a Norton, had laps aTmore than 100 miles sn hour—the first singlecylinder machines to reach .that ’ speed on the twisting, mountainous circuit. Mechanical trouble forced P. Pawson, from Hamilton, New Zealand, riding a Norton, a newcomer to the nee. G. Smith, from Sydney. on a Norton, and H. Anderson, of Waiksto, New Zealand, to retire from the race.