MANX GRAND PRIX
AMATEUR MOTOR-CYCLE
RACE
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received September 8, 11 a.m.)
RUGBY, September 7,
In the Isle of Man today the Manx Grand Prix Motor-cycle race was won at the fastest speed ever reached in an amateur race by H. L. Daniell, on a Norton machine, at 76.98 miles per hour. J. Swanston, second with 75.9 miles per hour, and J. Muir, 75.11 miles per hour, also rode Nortons.
Speeds of over 100 miles per hour were reached, but the riders could negotiate some of tho hairpin corners only at ten miles per hour. The race was contested over a mountain course of 226 miles. Until today the amateur record for the course was 71.9 miles per hour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 60, 8 September 1933, Page 8
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