CHAPTER XIX

MOTOR RACING

Harry Turns to Motor-racing—Successful Début at Brooklands—Why

I Stayed at Home—The 250 h.p. Sunbeam Touring Car

Takes Second Place—When the 450 h.p. Racer Comes on the

Scene—Harry Drives the Largest Car in the World—A Terrible

Crash—Without Serious Consequences—Back to the Air—The

R.A.F. Tournament—Reunion of Pioneer Aviators—Eleventh-Hour

Entry for the Aerial Derby—Second Place, but Disqualified—A

Very Busy Month—Aeroplane Trials at Martlesham—British

International Motor-boat Trophy at Cowes—More

Motor-racing at Brooklands—His Aeroplane Enables Harry

to be (nearly) in Three Places at Once—Harry “Brings Home”

a £3,000 Prize for the Sopwith Company at Martlesham—I

Decide that Motor-racing is Too Risky—And Fate Deprives

Harry of a Race—Motor-boat Racing—Racing an A.C. Light

Car—And a D.F.P.—The Gordon-Bennett Air Race of 1920—Bad

Luck—The 450 h. p. Sunbeam Again 291

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