Joe
Fry

Joe Fry was born in Winterbourne on 26 October 1915. He made his name as the main driver of the Freikaiserwagen, an 1,100 cc racing car built in Bristol in 1936 by his cousin David Fry and Hugh Dunsterville. In the late 1930s he set several hill climb records, and when the war began he held both the supercharged and unsupercharged 1,100 cc records at Shelsley Walsh. He won his class at the Brighton Speed Trials in 1948 and 1949. In the 1949 British Hill Climb Championship he led the standings at one stage, but he finished fourth.

In 1950 he drove a Maserati in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, his only World Championship race. He was killed at the wheel of the Freikaiserwagen at the Blandford hill climb on 29 July 1950. The Joe Fry Trophy, a memorial race, was held at Castle Combe from 1952 to 1954.

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