page_title: Frank Newton (racing driver)
section_title: Racing career
hierarchical_section_title: Frank Newton (racing driver) / Racing career
caption_attribution_description: Photographed at the Louwman museum, The Netherlands.
context_page_description: Frank Newton was a British racing driver and engineer.
context_section_description: In July 1907, Newton won the Century Stakes at the first meeting ever held at Brooklands, attended by 13,500 people.
  On 23 September 1908, he won the Monatgu Cup at Brooklands, driving a Napier motor car nicknamed 'The Meteor', after having fought "a terrific duel" with Dario Resta, where their cars "banged wheels at top speed". "For a moment, it looked bad, but both drivers regained control." After the race The Brooklands Automobile Racing Club awarded Frank the Monatgu cup and was given a certificate authenticating that he drove 1 complete lap at an average speed of 113.01 MPH. 
  In 1908, also at Brooklands, Newton drove a 90 hp Napier for its Australian owner Selwyn Edge, who had a £500 bet with D'Arcy Baker that his car could go faster than Felice Nazzaro's Fiat, but the Napier suffered from mechanical trouble.
  Newton's preferred racing car was a Napier 90 hp.
caption: 1907 Napier 60hp T21
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