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REGISTERED AS A NEWSPAPER FOR TRANSMISSION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND TO CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND BY MAGAZINE POST. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1929. The Copyright of all the Editorial Matter, both Engravings and Letterpress, is Strictly Reserved in Great Britain, the Colonies, Europe, and the United States of America. DAILY MAIL THE GREATEST MOTOR ROAD EVENT IN HISTORY: THE R.A.C. INTERNATIONAL TOURIST TROPHY RACE OVER THE ARDS CIRCUIT, IN ULSTER-A GENERAL VIEW AT QUARRY CORNER. The seventh International Tourist Trophy Race organised by the Royal Automobile Club, run on Saturday, August 17, over the Ards Circuit, in Ulster, has been described as 'admittedly the greatest motor road race in history." Six nations were represented-Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, and the United States-and the number of starters, sixty-five, exceeded that of any previous event. Never before have so many drivers of the first rank competed, and, despite heavy rain at intervals, a " record " crowd of about half a million spectators watched the course with sustained enthusiasm. The result proved to be a victory for Germany and the first official German racing team to visit the British Isles since the beginning of the war. The winner (of whom we give a portrait on page 324) was R. Carraciola, driving a Mercédès-Benz. Second place fell to an Italian, C. Campari, in an Alfa Romeo, and the third and fourth to two Baby Austins (driven by A. Frazer Nash and S. V. Holbrook)-a triumph for these small British cars. At Quarry Corner exciting incidents occurred. A

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REGISTERED AS A NEWSPAPER FOR TRANSMISSION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND TO CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND BY MAGAZINE POST.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1929.

The Copyright of all the Editorial Matter, both Engravings and Letterpress, is Strictly Reserved in Great Britain, the Colonies, Europe, and the United States of America.

THE GREATEST MOTOR ROAD EVENT IN HISTORY: THE R.A.C. INTERNATIONAL TOURIST TROPHY RACE OVER THE ARDS CIRCUIT, IN ULSTER-A GENERAL VIEW AT QUARRY CORNER.

The seventh International Tourist Trophy Race organised by the Royal Auto- mobile Club, run on Saturday, August 17, over the Ards Circuit, in Ulster, has been described as 'admittedly the greatest motor road race in history." Six nations were represented-Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, and the United States-and the number of starters, sixty-five, exceeded that of any previous event. Never before have so many drivers of the first rank competed, and, despite heavy rain at intervals, a " record " crowd of about half a million spectators watched the course with sustained enthusiasm. The result proved to be a victory for Germany and the first official German racing team to visit the British Isles since the beginning of the war. The winner (of whom we give a portrait on page 324) was R. Carraciola, driving a Mercédès-Benz. Second place fell to an Italian, C. Campari, in an Alfa Romeo, and the third and fourth to two Baby Austins (driven by A. Frazer Nash and S. V. Holbrook)-a triumph for these small British cars. At Quarry Corner exciting incidents occurred.

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