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Kaye Don
Kaye Don (10 April 1891 – 1981) was a world record breaking car and speedboat racer who became a motorcycle dealer on his retirement from road racing and set up Ambassador Motorcycles.
==Biography==
Kaye Ernest Donsky, known as Kaye Don, was born in Dublin on 10 April 1891. Kaye Don began his career as a motorcycle racer but soon switched to cars and won the inaugural 1928 Ards-Belfast circuit, Northern Ireland, Tourist Trophy with a Lea-Francis. Between 1926 and 1928 Kaye raced a 1921 Grand Prix Sunbeam at Brooklands which was an ex-Malcolm Campbell ‘Blue Bird’ and extensively contributed to what W Boddy described as “the best run of success by any Brooklands car in such a period”. 〔Motor Sport 1986 May ‘The 4.9-liter Sunbeams, William Boddy P. 535-537〕〔The history of Brooklands 1906-1940, William Boddy, 1957 P.218, 234, 256, 261, 265, 267, 277, 284〕
In 1928 he had three ex-works Sunbeam cars which he named "Cub", "Tiger" and "Tigress".〔 Don regularly raced at Brooklands and driving a Sunbeam on 22 September 1928 he set an outer circuit lap flying start record of and increased this to on 5 August 1929.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Top 100 Historic Racing Drivers )〕 Driving a Wolseley Viper at Brooklands Don achieved many class records between 1928 and 1930. Driving the V-12 Sunbeam Tigress at Brooklands on 9 June 1930, Kaye set a new Outer Circuit lap record of .
Kaye Don died in Chobham Surrey in 1981 aged 90.〔 In memory of his heroic achievements at Brooklands race track the area has a street named after Kaye Don in the borough of Elmbridge District.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=London Boroughs )〕 Perhaps the best memorial to him was made by Kaye Don in a victory speech to the Empire Club of Canada in 1931, when he was the holder of land and water world speed records and said "One or two experiences that I have had have been somewhat thrilling".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Complementary Luncheon for Mr Kaye Don, famous British Sportsman )〕
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