The Jersey Race

July 7, 2014

Everyone who possibly can seems to be going over to Jersey on May 8th, many by boat, others by the approved air line or with air-charter companies, a number employing R.A.F. experience by flying themselves over — we rather expect to see the last-named floating home on rubber dinghies all the following week.

Entries from the list given to us just before closing date were as follows: Ten Maseratis, drivers Chiron, Pagani, “Bira,” Sommer, Connell and Evans, Parnell, Ansell and Bainbridge, R. Dixon and Grey, Gilbey and Monkhouse, and one unspecified; ten E.R.A.s, drivers Mays, Whitehead, Walker, Brooke, Cotton and Wilkinson, Abecassis, Gerard and Turner, Harrison, Bolster, and the Ashmores; four Delage, drivers Woodall, Louveau, Levagh, Achard; one Bugatti (Cleveland Harmer and Chorlton), one Darracq (Johnson); one Delahaye (Pozzoli); and the Challenger (Hampshire). Total, 28 cars. The winner? Our tip is Sommer or Chiron, if they come over, Mays or Parnell of the British drivers.