On this present day in 1908 the primary ladies’s motor race was held at Brooklands motor racing circuit which had opened a yr earlier because the world’s first objective-constructed banked motor race circuit on the earth. Shortly afterwards there was a second however it might be years later earlier than Brooklands determined that ladies had a spot within the motor racing world. On Might 9 1908 although, the Women Bracelet handicap passed off over solely a lap – a distance of round three miles. There have been three rivals, Miss Muriel Thompson in an Austin Pobble, Christobel Ellis in an Arrol-Johnston that she might barely see over the steering wheel and Dame Ethel Locke King, spouse of the monitor’s proprietor on an Itala Bambo. The end was shut however Muriel gained. She additionally gained the return match during which solely Christobel took half.
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