Riley-driving Brits take an unexpected victory in this exciting new French event
A Cadillac’s last-minute retirement from this new event – which follows the tyre tracks of Woolf Barnato’s Bentley across France – meant that two Brits in a Riley snatched overall victory.
Richard and Tom Jeffcoate took the lead in their 1938 Riley 16/4 Special after the American entrant, driven by James Gately and Tony Brooks, destroyed one of its wheel bearings in the final regularity stage.
This story is from the October 4,2017 edition of Classic Car Weekly.
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