WIN FOR ITALIANS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 48, 25 August 1930, Page 9

WIN FOR ITALIANS

BELFAST MOTOR RACE

THRILLING INCIDENTS

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LONDON, 23ra August.

At Belfast the Italian Alfa Borneo team waa overwhelmingly victorious in the race for the International Tourist Trophy, 420-mile race, over a 14-mile circuit. Nuvolari was first with a speed of 70.88 miles an hour, Compari was second, 70.82 miles an hour, and Varzi third with 70.31. Birkin and Kaye Don both met with accidents. Thrilling incidents marked the race. Captain Waite, in an Austin, lapped the Ballyetoekart bridge at too great a speed and overturned into the crowd. Waite, who was underneath the car, was removed unconscious.

Kayo Don, in an Alfa Romeo, struck the bridge. The car leapt into the air. overturned, and caught fire. Don was rescued when he was actually being, scorched. He had a rib broken. A frantic rush followed to remove the burning car from the path of the others, who were travelling at near a hundred miles an hour.

K. S. Peacock, in a Lea Francis, skidded practically the whole length of tho main street at Newtonwards, and ended by partially demolishing a butcher's shop. The greatest tragedy to British hopes was when Captain Birkin, in a Bentley, was striving to overtake the Italians approaching Ballystockart bridge. The near-side front wheel came off, the car crashing into a wall and being partially wrecked. The crowd was amazed to see Birkin step out only dazed. . The police estimated that half a million people -were on the course. Fifteen hundred constables patrolled the course magnificently.

The Italians set a hectic pace. The skids became terrifying. The race became most tense when heavy rains made the course as slippery as glass. Unbelievable risks were taken. Three daredevil Italians went round, racing one another, the crowd generously cheering every yard of the course.