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For nine years in the 1920s and 1930s the world's best racing drivers came to compete in the RAC Tourist Trophy Race. 2018 marks the race's 90th anniversary. My late mother told of how, as a child, she walked from her home in Gilnahirk to watch famous drivers such as Sir Malcolm Campbell. He, and later his son Donald, held the world land and water speed records in vehicles called "Blue Bird". The winners of the Ards TT included Kaye Don, driving a supercharged Lea Francis, and in the years that followed Rudolf Carraciola, Tazio Nuvolari, Norman Black, Cyril Whitford, Charles Dobson and Freddie Dixon. In cars weighing several tons with narrow wheels and a total lack of driver protection, they drove for up to six hours the 13 miles from Dundonald through Newtownards and Comber back to Dundonald. An article in the Belfast Telegragh, by Sammy Hamill, tells us that thousands of spectators, indeed hundreds of thousands thronged the circuit each year. Steamers from Liverpool and Heysham were double berthed on the Lagan, extra wiring was strung to enable a shuttle service of trams to carry spectators to and from Dundonald and trains ran round the clock.
The Ards TT circuit was shut down after a race which saw the deaths of eight spectators, including two young boys, when a Riley driven by a Belfast man crashed at the entrance to Newtownards near where the Strangford Arms Hotel now stands.
The following coordinates will give the probable location where my mum and her friends stood and watched the great races.
N 54 35.(A+G) (E) (D) W005 48.(F-G-C) (H) (B)
Check sum.
The sum total of A to H = 39