MOTOR CYCLING
TOURIST TROPHY RACES BOTH WON BY WOODS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 16. Stanley Woods, who won the junior tourist .trophy, won the senior race today for machines of 500 c.c. maximum engine capacity. Woods won the same double honours last year. He rode a Norton motor cycle. Twenty-nine riders contested to-day's race over a mountain course of a total distance of 264 miles. Foreign competitors were outclassed. Woods led throughout and finished in 3hr 15min 35sec, averaging 81.04 miles per hour. Simpson, on a Norton, was second, averaging 80.41 miles' per hour. Hunt, on a Norton, was third, averaging 79.49 miles per hour. The lap record was broken three times during the .race, and is now held by Woods, whose speed for the single circuit represented 82.7 miles per hour. Moses (New Zealand) retired in the first lap. AWARD FOR NEW ZEALANDER. LONDON, June 17. (Received June 19, at 0.15 a.m.) Moses was presented with the Nisbet Award for pluck and endurance in the Tourist Trophy races.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21983, 19 June 1933, Page 7
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