/ 50.817°N 0.123°W / 50.817; -0.123 The Brighton Speed Trials, in full The Brighton National Speed Trials, is commonly held to be the oldest running...
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Mickey Thompson (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
demonstrated his Ford-powered Harvey Aluminum Special dragster at the Brighton Speed Trials. It was then displayed at the Racing Car Show in London in January...
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Malcolm Campbell (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
£1 a week. Between 1906 and 1908, he won all three London to Land's End Trials motorcycle races. In 1910, he began racing cars at Brooklands. He christened...
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The Brighton and Hove Motor Club (BHMC) is best known as organiser of the Brighton Speed Trials. The club's origins date to the early 1920s when it was...
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Tony Crook (racing driver) (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
Thomas Anthony Donald Crook (16 February 1920 – 21 January 2014) was a racing driver from England. He was born in Manchester and educated at Clifton College...
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Madeira Drive on the seafront, also the venue for Brighton's other big motoring event, the Brighton Speed Trials. The event is organised on behalf of the Royal...
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John Cobb (racing driver) (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
Scotland for the speed trial. On 29 September 1952 he was killed at the age of 52 whilst attempting to break the world Water Speed Record at Loch Ness...
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Arthur Owen (racing driver) (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
driving a Cooper-Climax, Owen made fastest time of the day at the Brighton Speed Trials. In 1962, Owen won the British Hill Climb Championship at the wheel...
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from two Daimler Dingo scout car chassis. The car was run in the Brighton Speed Trials in 1953, and was sold to James Duffy of St. Louis, Missouri, in...
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Ian Raby (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
of 1954. He won the 500 c.c. racing car class in a Cooper at the Brighton Speed Trials in 1955. Raby finished 15th in the 1957 24 Hours of Le Mans, sharing...
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Joe Fry (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
c.c., in the Freikaiserwagen at the Brighton Speed Trials in 1947. He drove the car to a class victory at Brighton the following year recording a faster...
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Roy Lane (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
Roy Lane (c. 1935 – 14 October 2009) was a British racing driver. He is best known for his great success in hillclimbing, having won the British Hillclimb...
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Dean Moon (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
comeback in England in 1963 driven by Dante Duce. In 1964 Duce won the Brighton Speed Trials in the Moonbeam, a Devin-bodied sports car equipped with a supercharged...
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following year a "J. Justice (J.A.P. Special)" competed in the Brighton Speed Trials: "Justice's machine 'Tallulah' noisily expired before the end of...
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Dorothy Levitt (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
Speed Trial in October when she broke her own Women's World Speed Record (which she set at the Brighton Speed Trials in 1905). She recorded a speed of...
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David Purley (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
by the Cosworth GA 3.4-litre V6 engine. In 1974 Purley won the Brighton Speed Trials driving a Trojan-Chevrolet T101, winning again the following year...
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Tony Marsh (racing driver) (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
1993, his co-driver Simon Law was killed in the car during the Brighton Speed Trials, a tragedy which affected Marsh considerably. He returned with the...
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John Cooper (car maker) (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
warmup laps, he was unaware of the requirement to gradually build up his speed on the track. He clocked his second lap at 144.8 miles per hour, fast enough...
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entering a total of eight cars. In 1974, David Purley won the Brighton Speed Trials driving a Trojan-Chevrolet T101.[citation needed] While Formula...
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world's oldest motor race, the Brighton Speed Trials, which has been running since 1905. The event is organised by the Brighton and Hove Motor Club and normally...
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David Piper (racing driver) (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
David Ruff Piper (born 2 December 1930) is a British former Formula One and sports car racing driver from England. He participated in 3 Formula One World...
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'Black Bomber' was first shown in UK during the Diamond Jubilee Brighton Speed Trials of September 1965, traditionally held along the seafront. The bike...
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Selwyn Edge (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
first when, on 2 October, Dorothy Levitt won her class at the Southport Speed Trials driving his 12 Hp Gladiator, shocking British society as she was the...
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Ken Wharton (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
BHCC titles. Other successes with ERA R4D included winning the Brighton Speed Trials in 1954, 1955 and 1956. Success in rallies included winning the...
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Peter Westbury (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
Research Ltd. Westbury also drove the Ferguson P99 in the 1964 Brighton Speed Trials and at the First International Drag Festival, a series of six events...
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Ken Tyrrell (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
secretly employ Derek Gardner, then at Ferguson (whom he had encountered in trials with a four-wheel drive Matra) to build what became the Tyrrell 001. It...
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Birabongse Bhanudej (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
Prince Birabongse Bhanudej Bhanubandh (Thai: พีรพงศ์ภาณุเดช; RTGS: Phiraphong Phanudet; 15 July 1914 – 23 December 1985), commonly known as Prince Bira...
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George Abecassis (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
published a comprehensive biography of his father under the title A Passion for Speed. His grandson, Jonathan Abecassis, has an active interest in vintage sports...
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Whitney Straight (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
at Brooklands, the Mont Ventoux Hill Climb (3 September) and the Brighton Speed Trials (16 September). He also won the 1100 c.c. class in the Coppa Acerbo...
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Stuart Lewis-Evans (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
Prix. His car's engine seized and sent him lurching into barriers at high speed, where it burst into flames. He was airlifted back to the UK, but died of...
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