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

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(Alpine Rally) in France, in 1961 and 1962, driving an

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, 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) calen ...

in 1960. In 1966 he married

Valerie Domleo Valerie Domleo (11 April 1932 – 24 December 2020), also known as Valerie Domleo-Morley or Valerie Morley, was an English physicist, rally co-driver and farmer. Formative years and family Domleo was born in Hendon, Middlesex, England on 11 Apri ...

, also a rally driver who co-drove for popular female drivers of the decade such as

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and

Rosemary Smith Rosemary Smith (born 7 August 1937) is a rally driver from Dublin, Ireland. She initially trained as a dress designer. Biography Smith entered her first rally as a co-driver. After deciding that navigating was not to her liking, she switched ...

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

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Rally results

External links

eWRC
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