The British Empire Trophy was a motor race in the United Kingdom. Since its inception in 1932, the Empire Trophy was hosted at five different circuits...
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The 1961 British Empire Trophy was the 23rd British Empire Trophy and an Intercontinental Formula motor race held on 8 July 1961 at the Silverstone Circuit...
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The 10th British Empire Trophy was a Formula One motor race held on 25 May 1948 at the Douglas Circuit, in Douglas, Isle of Man. The 36-lap race was won...
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The 9th British Empire Trophy was a Formula One motor race held on 21 August 1947 at the Douglas Circuit, in Douglas, Isle of Man. The 40 lap race was...
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The 11th British Empire Trophy was a Formula One motor race held on 26 May 1950 at the Douglas Circuit, in Douglas, Isle of Man. The 36-lap race was won...
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The 1950 British Empire Trophy was a non-Championship Formula One motor race held on 15 June 1950 at the Douglas Circuit, in Douglas, Isle of Man. It...
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Manx Cup and the 9th British Empire Trophy. This circuit variant remained largely unchanged until 1953, the 15th British Empire Trophy and last event held...
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David Hampshire (category Use British English from January 2014)
In 1947, he first drove Reg Parnell's "The Challenger" in the British Empire Trophy and Parnell's ERA E-type (GP1) at Lausanne both ending in retirements...
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Roy Salvadori (category British Touring Car Championship drivers)
June 2016. "British Empire Trophy 1957 - Race Results - Racing Sports Cars". racingsportscars.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016. "Sussex Trophy Goodwood 1957...
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Tony Rolt (category Use British English from May 2015)
one of the last prewar winners remaining too – he won the 1939 British Empire Trophy, aged just 20 in 1939 – this was after he started his career in...
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Lister, he enjoyed great success racing Lister Cars, winning the British Empire Trophy in 1957. In his short career, he scored a total of 71 race victories...
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Stirling Moss (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
Retrieved 28 March 2016. "Sussex Trophy Goodwood". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved 28 March 2016. "British Empire Trophy". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved...
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Marseille Marseilles Juan Manuel Fangio Simca Gordini Report 26 May XI British Empire Trophy Douglas Bob Gerard ERA Report 5 June XVIII Grand Prix des Frontières...
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John Barber (racing driver) (category Use British English from May 2015)
remains of his crashed Mk1 Cooper. While racing this car in the British Empire Trophy on the Isle of Man, he was involved in an accident which killed...
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Golden Age. Archived from the original on 2008-05-29. Retrieved 2007-04-03. Nye, Doug (1977). The British Grand Prix 1926-1976. p. 10. ISBN 0713432837....
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Chuck Daigh (category British Touring Car Championship drivers)
finished seventh in an attempt at the International Trophy. He went on to crash out of the British Empire Trophy at Silverstone. He was also a successful sportscar...
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English Racing Automobiles (category Use British English from July 2015)
GP2 tied with Parnell's Maserati 4CLT for fastest lap in the 1948 British Empire Trophy and finished fifth. In the same race GP1, upgraded by the works...
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1933 he competed in 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 1933 Czaykowski won British Empire Trophy. He was one of three drivers to die during the 1933 Monza Grand...
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1950 Formula One season (section Race 1: Britain)
for World Championship classification. The Alfa Romeo team dominated the British Grand Prix at the fast Silverstone circuit in England, locking out the...
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Playa Ramirez Oscar Alfredo Gálvez Alfa Romeo Report 21 August British Empire Trophy Douglas Circuit Bob Gerard ERA Report 21 September Mar del Plata...
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Mike Hawthorn (category Use British English from March 2012)
January 2016. "British Empire Trophy". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved 26 January 2016. "Results 1952 Formula 1 Grand Prix of Great Britain". F1 Fansite....
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Commonwealth Games (redirect from British Empire Games)
exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 as the British Empire Games and, with the exception of 1942 and...
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Reg Parnell (category Use British English from May 2015)
Racing Sports Cars. 27 August 1955. Retrieved 3 December 2015. "British Empire Trophy 1955". Racing Sports Cars. 4 February 1955. Retrieved 3 December...
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year, one of two formal races held at Brooklands was the inaugural British Empire Trophy run as a pair of heats with a 100-mile final. This saw the land-speed-record...
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Peter Whitehead (racing driver) (category Use British English from May 2015)
racing was revived, taking his trusty ERA to second place in the British Empire Trophy, held at the Douglas Circuit on the Isle of Man in the summer of...
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1996 BPR 4 Hours of Silverstone (category 1996 in British motorsport)
Silverstone Circuit on 12 May 1996. The race was also appointed the British Empire Trophy. Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's...
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was first used as an automobile road-racing circuit for the 1908 Tourist Trophy event for racing automobiles, then known as the Four Inch Course. For the...
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John Cobb (racing driver) (category Segrave Trophy recipients)
occupies the site of the former Grove House estate. British Empire Trophy (1932). Segrave Trophy (1947). Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct (1953)...
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Scottish Formula One and sports car racer who won the 1957 British Empire Trophy race despite disabilities including having only one hand, died from...
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Geoffrey Crossley (category Use British English from May 2015)
competed in a few races using a pre-war Alta, including the 1947 British Empire Trophy race on the Isle of Man. In 1949 he bought an Alta GP Grand Prix...
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