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Donald Morley

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Nationality
  
English

Occupation
  
Race car driver

Donald Morley httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Born
  
7 October 1930 (
1930-10-07
)
Cosford, Suffolk

Spouse(s)
  
Valerie Domleo (married 1966)

Died
  
23 June 2006, Gipping, United Kingdom

Donald Jude Morley (7 October 1930 – 23 June 2006) was a British race car driver from Cosford in Suffolk who specialized in rally driving.

Career

Donald rose to fame in the rapidly growing sport of international rallying during the late 1950s, and became one of BMC's most reliable works drivers in the 1960s.

He won twice the Coupe des Alpes (Alpine Rally) in France, in 1961 and 1962, driving an Austin-Healey 3000, and was co-driven by Earle Morley, his identical twin brother. In doing so, he became the first British driver to win the race in more than 10 years. Donald also came onto the podium in the RAC Rally in 1960.

In 1966 he married Valerie Domleo, also a rally driver who co-drove for popular lady drivers of this decade such as Pauline Mayman and Rosemary Smith.

In his later years after retiring from rallying, Donald and his family became farmers in Stowmarket.

References

Donald Morley Wikipedia