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was the first annual international award for motorboat racing. Officially, it is a contest not between boats or individuals but between nations. The boats were originally to be designed and built entirely by residents of the country represented, using materials and units built wholly within that
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magazine said of the 1920 race: "Many a race between shadowy contraband-carrying rumrunners and swift, searchlight playing patrol boats has been run on the narrow Detroit river. Last week 400,000 persons lined the river's edge to watch millionaires race millionaires."
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a director of Napier Motors. France won in 1904. In 1907, it was won by Americans for the first time. The US and England traded it back and forth until 1920. From 1920 to 1933, Americans had an unbroken winning streak.
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The Harmsworth was reinstated in 1949 and remained in American hands until 1959. In 1959, Canadians won the award. The driver,
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The trophy has been awarded sporadically from 1986 through to 2018, with a total of eleven earned in that time.
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country. The rules were somewhat relaxed in 1949 and may have been relaxed further since.
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won this race eight times as a driver and nine times as an owner between 1920 and 1933.
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The Trustees, British International Harmsworth Trophy
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The iconic Harmsworth Trophy will be awarded in 2018
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