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Italian Car Driver Wins Big Race. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 7. 1.10 p.m.) TRIPOLI, May 6. The Italian, Achille Yarzi, driving an Alfa Romeo, won the Tripoli Grand Prix for the second successive year after a terrific struggle by one-fifth of a second. Buy Moll, a Frenchman, was second, and Louis Chiron, of Monaco, third. They also were driving Alfa Romeos. The course of forty 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 a road circuit.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20298, 7 May 1934, Page 7
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