From Hospital to Triumph

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18757, 13 July 1935, Page 9

From Hospital to Triumph

TI-IE veteran motor-racer “Freddie” * Dixon, 43, grey-haired,-, toothless from eraslt after crash —emerged from hospital to .win in brilliant.' style tho big race of the Brooklands Easter meeting on April 22, showing a clean pair of heels, to a. large field of crack drivers half his age. Tho garage- proprietor front Ali<jdlesbrougk drove a “hush-hush” aluminium. Riley to a clear 4(jO-yard yietpry in the final of the. British Mountain Handicap. Dixon is the Billy; Stott of tho motor race track. He crashed last year at Damnington Park, broke bounds front, eonvalcscOhee, and made a “eome-btnck” by.winning the 500-mile moo. Three months ago he waP so deviously injured in art air crash that his life hltng in the balance for Weekp, But the man who 'sht a new standard in motorcycle, racing rose almost front tho dead to make a second —:and greater—come-back. In his heat lie finished only sccami —intentionally.. Ho Wanted the extra handicap—he got 32s0e. In the RniU he had Won before the race was half over. ' His ' crouching, ‘ diminutive, figure flashed down the. course, cornered like a demon, drew aWay from the rest, of the field, and won lit an average speed of 74.08 m.p.h.