George Duller

Frank Clement and George Duller's victorious Bentley 3L in the 1927 Paris 24-hour race

The Bentley 3 Liter Super Sport owned by André d'Erlanger and George Duller, involved in the Maison Blanche accident at the 1927 Le Mans 24-hour race

George Edward Duller (born January 26, 1891 in Plaistow , † August 6, 1962 in Epsom ) was a British jockey and racing driver .

jockey

George Duller was a well-known and successful British obstacle jockey in the 1910s . In 1918 he won the British Jockey Championship . After the end of his racing career, he returned to equestrian sport after the Second World War and trained horses for obstacle races in the 1950s. He died of a heart attack on August Bank Holiday 1962 while attending the Epson horse race meeting .

Racing career

Duller's racing career began in the early 1920s. He came to motorsport through his friend JG Parry-Thomas , who held several speed records. He drove his first races in Brooklands , where he took part in the Booklands Light Handicap in 1921 . The race and test track in Weybridge , with the steep turns and the many record drives, became Duller's motorsport home. In 1924 he was part of the Darracq works team and in the 200-mile race in Brooklands in a Bugatti came second behind Louis Zborowski in a Mercedes . He celebrated his first victory in 1927 at the Brooklands 6 Hours . Duller drove a Sunbeam Sports Model and won the race by a clear margin over Sammy Davis in the Alvis 12/50 and the duo Tim Birkin and Frank Clement in the Bentley 3L Speed. The second overall victory of the year came in a 24-hour race . Together with Clement, he won the 24-hour race in Paris at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry on a Bentley 4.5 liter .

Duller competed twice as one of the Bentley Boys in the Le Mans 24-hour race . He made his debut in 1925 as a works driver for Sunbeam and partner of Henry Segrave . The duo could not finish the race after a clutch damage on the Sunbeam Sport Le Mans. In 1926 he failed again prematurely and in the following year he was involved in the White House disaster. The mass accident also affected the three Bentley's owned by Leslie Callingham , Sammy Davis and George Duller. All those involved were unharmed. While Callingham and Duller's cars were so badly damaged that they could no longer take part in the race, Davis won his Bentley together with Dudley Benjafield to overall victory.

Duller drove car races until 1937. He had his last job at the 500-mile race of Brooklands in 1937 , where he was canceled due to a technical defect on the Duesenberg .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1925	Sunbeam Motor Company	Sunbeam 3 Liter Super Sports	Henry Segrave	failure	Clutch damage
1926	Bentley Motors Ltd.	Bentley 3 Liter Speed ​​Model	Frank Clement	failure	Engine failure
1927	Bentley Motors Ltd.	Bentley 3 Liter Super Sport	André d'Erlanger	failure	accident

Web links

Commons : George Duller  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• George Duller at Historic Racing
• George Duller at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Jockey George Duller
2. ↑ Brooklands 6 Hours 1927
3. ↑ 24-hour race of Paris 1927
4. ↑ Brooklands 500 Mile Race, 1937