Donald Jude Morley (7 October 1930 – 23 June 2006) was a British race car driver from Suffolk who specialized in rally driving.
Career
He won twice the
Coupe des Alpes (Alpine Rally) in France, in 1961 and 1962, driving an
Austin-Healey 3000
The Austin-Healey 3000 is a British sports car built from 1959 until 1967. It is the best known of the "big Healey" models. The car's bodywork was made by Jensen Motors and the vehicles were assembled at BMC's MG Works in Abingdon, alongsid ...
, 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
Wales Rally GB was the most recent iteration of the United Kingdom's premier international motor rally, which ran under various names since the first event held in 1932. It was consistently a round of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) cal ...
in 1960.
In 1966 he married
Valerie Domleo, also a rally driver who co-drove for popular female drivers of the decade such as
Pauline Mayman and
Rosemary Smith
Rosemary Smith (7 August 1937 – 5 December 2023) was an Irish rally driver and driving instructor from Dublin, Ireland. She competed for the Rootes Group, Rootes and Ford Motor Company, Ford factory rally teams. As a factory team driver for t ...
.
In his later years after retiring from rallying, Donald and his family became farmers in
Stowmarket
Stowmarket ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England,OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket
Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton A2 edition. Publishing Date:2008. o ...
.
Rally results
External links
eWRC
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English rally drivers
1930 births
2006 deaths
20th-century English sportsmen