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DENIS JENKINSON - AND VINCENTS
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<blockquote data-quote="Diogenes" data-source="post: 55645" data-attributes="member: 91"><p><strong><a href="http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ft17104.html" target="_blank">http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ft17104.html</a></strong></p><p></p><p>Why I look forward to... the French Grand Prix</p><p><strong>JULY 10, 2006</strong></p><p><strong>BY MIKE DOODSON</strong></p><p>"I was sent to cover the 1969 race at Clermont by Motor Sport magazine, a task I accepted with deep reluctance only because our regular correspondent, the illustrious Denis Jenkinson, was to be unavoidably absent.<strong> Jenks wanted to stay in England that weekend because he was sprinting his Vincent motorcycle</strong>, so I turned in a tentative story which was then set in type. To my relief, however, it did not need to be published because a few days later Jenks submitted a report which had been cobbled together from a couple of phone calls and the stuff he'd read in the weeklies. Sad to say, this incident rather diminished my admiration for a reporter whose reputation rightly hung on his ability to make you feel he was always at the heart of the action."</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Jenkinson" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Jenkinson</a></strong></p><p>"In the sixties Jenkinson did much to promote the sport of drag racing in the pages of <em>Motor Sport</em> magazine.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Jenkinson#cite_note-4" target="_blank">[4]</a> On September 14, 1963 he rode his NorBSA motorcycle, a BSA Gold Star 500cc engine in a modified and lowered Norton frame, at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Speed_Trials" target="_blank">Brighton Speed Trials</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Jenkinson#cite_note-5" target="_blank">[5]</a> He drove an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Allard#The_1960s:_rallying.2C_drag_racing" target="_blank">Allard</a> Dragon dragster and also rode a 648 c.c. Triumph sprint motorcycle in the 1965 Drag Festival.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Jenkinson#cite_note-6" target="_blank">[6]</a> He remained a motorcycle enthusiast, and competed in hillclimbs and sprints on his own <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Engineering_Co_Ltd" target="_blank">Triumph</a>-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Small_Arms_Company" target="_blank">BSA</a> hybrid well into his seventies."</p><p></p><p>I was surprised to read the above statement by Mike Doodson that Denis Jenkinson sprinted a Vincent motorcycle.</p><p>I cannot recall ever seeing any mention of that.</p><p>And the Wikipedia entry for Denis Jenkinson makes no mention of any involvement in Vincent sprinting.</p><p></p><p>Can anyone say if there was any Vincent sprinting by Denis Jenkinson?</p><p>Just curious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Diogenes, post: 55645, member: 91"] [B][url]http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ft17104.html[/url][/B] Why I look forward to... the French Grand Prix [B]JULY 10, 2006 BY MIKE DOODSON[/B] "I was sent to cover the 1969 race at Clermont by Motor Sport magazine, a task I accepted with deep reluctance only because our regular correspondent, the illustrious Denis Jenkinson, was to be unavoidably absent.[B] Jenks wanted to stay in England that weekend because he was sprinting his Vincent motorcycle[/B], so I turned in a tentative story which was then set in type. To my relief, however, it did not need to be published because a few days later Jenks submitted a report which had been cobbled together from a couple of phone calls and the stuff he'd read in the weeklies. Sad to say, this incident rather diminished my admiration for a reporter whose reputation rightly hung on his ability to make you feel he was always at the heart of the action." [B][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Jenkinson[/url][/B] "In the sixties Jenkinson did much to promote the sport of drag racing in the pages of [I]Motor Sport[/I] magazine.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Jenkinson#cite_note-4'][4][/URL] On September 14, 1963 he rode his NorBSA motorcycle, a BSA Gold Star 500cc engine in a modified and lowered Norton frame, at the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Speed_Trials']Brighton Speed Trials[/URL].[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Jenkinson#cite_note-5'][5][/URL] He drove an [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Allard#The_1960s:_rallying.2C_drag_racing']Allard[/URL] Dragon dragster and also rode a 648 c.c. Triumph sprint motorcycle in the 1965 Drag Festival.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Jenkinson#cite_note-6'][6][/URL] He remained a motorcycle enthusiast, and competed in hillclimbs and sprints on his own [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Engineering_Co_Ltd']Triumph[/URL]-[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Small_Arms_Company']BSA[/URL] hybrid well into his seventies." I was surprised to read the above statement by Mike Doodson that Denis Jenkinson sprinted a Vincent motorcycle. I cannot recall ever seeing any mention of that. And the Wikipedia entry for Denis Jenkinson makes no mention of any involvement in Vincent sprinting. Can anyone say if there was any Vincent sprinting by Denis Jenkinson? Just curious. [/QUOTE]
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