Sports Race Collection (page 5)

Flying Race
7th September 1912: The start of the flying race from Dublin to Belfast Leopardstown. (Photo by Desmond Arthur Stanton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Boat Race
1st April 1912: The Boat Race being re-rowed. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Seaplane Race
4th September 1919: Jacques Schneider Trophy National Seaplane Race, Hawkers Sopwith seaplane at East Cowes. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Boat Race
March 1910: Crowds on the Thames watching the Oxford Cambridge boat race.. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

AVRO Entry
11th September 1919: The AVRO entry in the Schneider International Seaplane Race, Bournemouth. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Enchanted Waters
16th August 1913: During a waterplane race round Britain, Lieutenant Travers on his seaplane pays a visit to the Enchantress. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Motorcycle Line-Up
24th March 1913: Contestants for the second motorcycle race line up at Brooklands, amidst a crowd. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Piggy-Back Race
1st December 1905: Members of the Salvation Army farm colony at Hadleigh prepare to take part in a piggy-back race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Torpedo Boat
8th August 1904: Destroyer Durendel, a French torpedo boat, a participant in the Calais-Dover motor-boat race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Guard
July 1906: Policemen sent to Brooklands to guard the motor racing track. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Brooklands
June 1922: Four Motor cars racing at Brooklands, Surrey, England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Junior Car Club
5th June 1926: Motor car racing at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, England. Competitors running to their cars for the start of 100 mile High Speed Reliability Test by the Junior Car Club

Brooklands
August 1922: Two motor cars racing at Brooklands, Surrey, England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Henley Regatta
30th June 1926: Crowds at the Henley regatta watch the rowing race from the banks of the Thames. (Photo by Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hairpin Race
September 1925: Small engined racing cars lined up for a motor-obstacle race at Brooklands. They have to navigate 130 hairpin bends in 200 miles at an average of 80mph

Early Racing Cars
6th June 1907: Racing cars with their drivers at Brooklands racing track before competing in the second heat of the Marcel Renault Plate. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dover Beach
9th June 1929: Motorboats at Dover harbour before the start of the cross channel outboard motorboat race to Calais and back. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cowes Regatta
August 1923: A race during the regatta at Cowes on the Isle of Wight. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Resolute Yacht In Buoy
July 1920: Yacht Resolute (in centre of life buoy on steamer Graham ) competing during the second race of the American Cup

Sunbeam Car
1st December 1913: The driver of a Sunbeam car which has broken 12 hour speed records at the Brooklands race track in England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Vauxhall Motor Car
22nd August 1913: A Vauxhall motor car which is at Brooklands race track to attempt the 12 hour record. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

RAC Dust Trials
1st July 1908: A racing car with anti-dust devices at the RAC Dust Trials at Brooklands race-track. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Isle Of Man
1st May 1907: An entrant in the Tourist Trophy race on the Isle of Man. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Tea Break
October 1906: Workers who are constructing the Brooklands, Surrey racing circuit having a coffee break at a mobile canteen. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Racing Start
15th August 1931: One of the two flying-boats engaged in a race to the Red Sea and back, a Saunders- Roe A 7, about to take off from Felixstowe Seaplane Station, Kent. (Photo by A)

One-Legged Race
July 1916: A very literal one-legged race held during a garden party for wounded soldiers at Roehampton House. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Junior Car Club Race
August 1922: Contestants taking part in the Junior Car Club 200 mile race at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Schneider Cup
Crowds watching the Schneider Trophy International Seaplane Race from Bournemouth pier. The race was won by Italian Guido Janello in his Savoia S13 plane. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Brooklands Relay
The start of a relay race at Brooklands racetrack. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hurlingham Balloons
Hot air balloons prepared for a race at Hurlingham sports ground, near London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ranelagh Balloons
25th May 1907: Hot air balloons at Ranelagh in Barnes, West London, during a race for the Harbord Cup. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Balloon Race
7th July 1906: Society visitors gather to watch a balloon race at Ranelagh in Barnes, West London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Thames Swimmers
7th September 1907: Competitors line up for the start of the Richmond to Blackfriars swimming race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Big Yacht Race
6th August 1928: Cambria and Westward racing in the big yacht race at Cowes Regatta. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

White City Dogs
20th June 1927: Dogs racing past the crowd during the opening meeting of the greyhound season at the White City track in Shepherds Bush. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Place Your Bets
1st June 1908: Bookmakers operating at Brooklands Race Track. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Start Of Race
29th May 1909: The start of the 3rd race at Brooklands racetrack. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Refitting For Regatta
July 1927: The Lulworth, Sir Mortimer Singers racing yacht, undergoes refitting in dry dock prior to competing. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Death Curve
16th March 1914: J B Marquis in a 1913 GP Sunbeam racing car overturns on Death Curve during the 35th lap of the International Grand Prix at Santa Monica. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Scottish Rally
June 1908: A car ascends Amature Hill to Kenmore on the Glasgow to Aberdeen motor race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Air Race
25th September 1913: Claude Grahame White in the First International Air Race at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bumping Race
19th May 1909: A bumping race during the Oxford Eights Week. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Motorcycles Line Up
11th December 1908: Ready to start racing: three Oxford undergraduates on motorcycles at Brooklands racetrack. From left to right, A K Wilkie, M B MacKenzie and Ds McMinnies

Race Begins
13th April 1914: The start of the second motorcycle race at the ARA Easter meeting at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Junior Tourist Trophy
19th May 1914: Hugh Mason is off at the start of the junior Tourist Trophy race on the Isle of Man (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Motor Racing
24th May 1926: Racing cars lined up for the start of the Private Competitors Handicap at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, England

Sea Lion III
September 1923: The Vickers Supermarine Sea Lion III during preparations for the Scheider Cup race at Cowes. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

In The Clouds
May 1910: Louis Paulhan in his Henri Farman III, in the clouds at Lichfield during the Daily Mail London to Manchester air race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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