Aviation Historian Roger Codger

1911-1914: Circuit of Britain Air Race

An early air race organised by the Daily Mail newspaper in England.

Here is some movie footage...

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Daily Mail - 1913

"The first prize is the sum of £5,000 to the first person who shall pilot a waterplane of entirely British invention and construction round England, Scotland, and Wales—and, so far as Ireland is -concerned, within one mile of Kingstown Harbour—in seventy-two continuous hours, starting and finishing at a point to be agreed upon near the mouth of the Thames."
Ref: Flight, April 5, 1913

References

Circuit of Britain Air Race (Wiki.)