Sports Race Collection (page 5)

Guarding Trophies
1908: Policemen standing guard over the trophies at the Easter race meeting at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Line Of Cars
1906: A line of cars ready for the start of a racing trial. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Track Construction
October 1906: Workers loading carts with earth, during construction of the Brooklands motor racing track. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cloud Of Dust
1909: Contestants in a motor race send up clouds of dust. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sunbeam
1907: Fred Eastmead with passengers in his 16/20 Sunbeam motor car, for the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Handicap Race
5th August 1912: The eighth 70 mph short handicap race at Brooklands, which was won by K Yano in a 25.8 Bedford. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cars Line Up
28th September 1912: Racing cars and drivers line up for the start of the O Gorman Trophy race at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dieppe Grand Prix
June 1912: Boillot in a Peugot leads the race on the first day of the Automobile Grand Prix at the Dieppe Circuit in France. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Delivery Boys Race
18th November 1924: Contestants in the annual race for delivery boys at the start of the race at Courbevoie. The boys race in their three-wheeled carts. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Brooklands
July 1907: Bookmakers are busy at Brooklands motor racing circuit. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Race At Windermere
August 1912: Runners take part in the Grassmere Sports meet by climbing the wall after the start of the Guides race at Windermere, in the Lake District. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Monoplane In Flight
25th September 1913: The American monoplane flown by W L Brock at the International Air Race at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Information Board
August 1910: The information board for the air races at Lanark Aviation Meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Rapid Racer Refuels
1907: A rapid racer is refuelled at the petrol tanks at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The French Spad
11th July 1919: The French SPAD competing in the Schneider Cup, the International Seaplane Race held at Bournemouth. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Air Race At Hendon
August 1913: Pilots Birchenough and Carr flying Grahame-White biplanes in the final race at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Finish Of Race
October 1913: The finish of the race at the Bristol Motor Car Club speed trials at Weston Supermare. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Harbord Cup Race
25th May 1907: An entry for the Harbord Cup Balloon Race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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)

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