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...Silverstone, England, before a crowd of 100,000, Italy's crack Racing Driver Alberto Ascari, in a Ferrari, won the British Grand Prix at a 92.97 m.p.h. clip...
...expected, the speedy Italian entries took the early lead. Italy's World Champion Alberto Ascari, driving a 4.5-liter Ferrari, whirled one lap (about 8½ miles) at a record 111.5 m.p.h. American Johnny Fitch, in a Briggs Cunningham Special, set a kilometer record at 155 m.p.h. But the race was not to the early swift...
...hours, only 28 entries remained, and the fast Ferraris were out of the running. By that time, a huge Sunday crowd of 200,000 people lined the course. Some of them saw what they came to see when Driver Tommy Cole, taking the Maison Blanche curve at 100 m.p.h. in his Ferrari, spun out, was thrown to the road and killed...
...European View. The main-event race was a 100-miler for big cars like the one that had killed Bob Wilder the day before. On the eighth lap, with last year's winner, Driver Bill Spear, leading in his Ferrari-Mexico, the spectators got another jolt. Some 55 seconds behind Spear, in fourth place, was Harry Grey, 37, one-time British professional driver and now a Long Island sales manager for European cars. Pushing his Jaguar at an 80-m.p.h. clip, Grey went into a spin, flipped over a time and a half, skidded to an upside-down stop...
...Alfa Romeo conked out be tween Aquila and Rome. From then on, the race settled down to a finish fight between German Driver Karl Kling, winner of last November's Pan American road race, and Argentina's Fangio-both in Alfa Romeos-and Gianni Marzotto in his Ferrari. At the end of 950 miles, it was Marzotto's Ferrari, smaller and easier to handle than the huge Alfas, which crossed the finish line first in new record time: 10 hr. 37 min. 19 sec., for an average speed of better than 88 m.p.h. As expected, the little...