Talk:Denis Jenkinson

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Denis Jenkinson was also involved in establishing the sport of drag racing in the UK in the 1960s. He competed in an Allard dragster fitted with a Ford supercharged 1½ litre engine.Rupertlt (talk) 16:13, 13 March 2009 (UTC) I think Denis Jenkinson's earlier motorcycle was a NorBSA, a BSA Gold Star 500cc engine in a modified and lowered Norton frame. He competed on the bike at the Brighton Speed Trials Sept 14, 1963. For photograph see Motor Sport, Nov 1963, P916. Rupertlt (talk) 16:47, 13 April 2009 (UTC) From: http://www.classicdriver.com This 'TriBSA' special motorcycle...was first used by Jenks at Loton Park in August 1976 before being campaigned energetically at such hillclimb courses as Wiscombe Park, Hartland Point, Gurston Down, Prescott and Shelsley Walsh - and also in such sprint events as Wroughton, Santa Pod and Ramsey. A Jenks quote from his handwritten 'TriBSA' notebook dated September 4, 1983 reads simply, "Happiness is 7,500 in 3rd!!!"Rupertlt (talk) 17:16, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Pacenotes
Moss & Jenks weren't the first to come up with the idea of pacenotes. Photographer/occasional passenger Louis Klementaski had used a very similar system during earlier runnings of the Mille Miglia (related in Chris Nixon's "Mon Ami Mate"), and they were used in the Carrera Panamericana by both the Lincoln (Leo Levine - "Ford: The Dust and the Glory") and Mercedes teams (see references on the Carrera Panamericana page). They may even have been used in pre-WW2 Turismo Carretera races in Argentina - Levine states that the Galvez brothers preferred to rely on their instincts to read the road rather than any form of notes, which at leasts suggests that other drivers were using them.Mr Larrington (talk) 14:07, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Mille Miglia
In 1955, Denis Jenkinson navigated the winning car in the gruelling Mille Miglia with a time of 10 hours, 7 minutes and 48 seconds, 32 minutes ahead of the 5 time Formula One World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio.

Some good sources of information on this achievement are:

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-1955/14/moss-mille-miglia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07CiCpf9kek https://stevemckelvie.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/jenks-recounting-of-his-1955-mille-miglia-record-ride-with-moss/ https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-1955/14/moss-mille-miglia

Harvard Referencing:

Motorsport Magazine. [online] Available at: https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-1955/14/moss-mille-miglia [Accessed 11 Nov. 2019].

Jenkinson, D. Stirling Moss in the Mille Miglia | Motor Sport Magazine Archive. [online] Motor Sport Magazine. Available at: https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-1955/14/moss-mille-miglia [Accessed 11 Nov. 2019].

McKelvie, S. Jenk's Recounting of His 1955 Mille Miglia Record Ride With Moss. [online] Wordpress. Available at: https://stevemckelvie.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/jenks-recounting-of-his-1955-mille-miglia-record-ride-with-moss/ [Accessed 11 Nov. 2019].

Motor sport. Stirling Moss on the 1955 Mille Miglia win and Denis Jenkinson. [image] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07CiCpf9kek [Accessed 11 Nov. 2019].