BRITONS IN TOP PLACES
Monte Carlo Car Rally (N.Z.P.A .-Reuter—Copyright) MONTE CARLO, January 24 Britain scored a major triumph in the Monte Carlo motor-car rally yesterday when Paddy Hopkirk, of Belfast, was declared the winner, Mrs Pat Moss-Carlsson won the women’s race, and B.M.C. took the two main team prizes. Hopkirk, aged 30, scored the first victory in the rally for Britain for eight years. The co-driver with Hopkirk. in a Morris Cooper, was Henry Liddon, a Bristol car salesman. Mrs Moss-Carlsson finished fifth in the general classification—the highest placing ever achieved by a woman driver—and won the women’s race for the fourth time.
The first six placings were: P. Hopkirk (Brittain). Morris Cooper, 2.536.2730 points, 1; B. Ljungfeldt (Sweden), Ford Falcon, 2.566.7128. 2; E. Carlsson (Sweden. Saab, 2.573.7760. 3; T. Makinen (Finland). Morris Cooper, 2,593.8625, 4; Mrs P. Moss-Carlsson (Britain), Saab, 2,596 9766. 5; T. Tranna (Sweden), Volvo, 2,609.7419, 6.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30348, 25 January 1964, Page 18
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