MOTOR CAR RACING
TRIPOLI GRAND PRIX . A THRILLING FINISH.- ■ TRIPOLI, May 8. The Italian, Achille Varzi, driving an Alfa Romeo, won the Tripoli Grand Prix for the second successive year, after a terrific struggle, by one-fifth of a second. Guy Moll/ a Frenchman, was second, and Louis Chiron, of Monaco, third, also driving Alfa Romeos. The course of 40 laps equalled 350 miles over a specially prepared triangular desert track. Varzi’s average speed was approximately 116 miles an hour—the fastest ever recorded on i road circuit. * In , a gigantic sweepstake an Italian drew Varzi and received £112,000. The second received £50,000, and the third £25,000. These were also Italians.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22256, 8 May 1934, Page 7
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