LOST WHEEL AT 100 M.P.H.
Racing Driver Killed CN.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE. Feb. 21. Lex Davison, aged 42, one of Australia’s champion racing car drivers, was killed in a practice run on Saturday. His ear somersaulted after losing a wheel at more than 100 m.p.h. on Sandown motor circuit.
Davison was practising in his 2.5 litre Brabham-Climax for today's 100-mile international cup at Sandown. He was accelerating to slightly more than 100 m.p.h. in fourth gear when a wheel hit a culvert at the side of the track and came off at the entrance to the back straight. The car somersaulted and landed on railings at the opposite side of the track. It was wrecked. Mrs Davison was close to the track and saw the accident. She rushed to the spot and watched as her husband was released from his car. He was dead when the ambulance arrived. Davison was the head of a shoe-making concern and raced as a hobby. He had seven children.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30682, 23 February 1965, Page 10
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