Sydney Allard - Legacy

Legacy

That there was keen interest in drag racing was beyond doubt as hundreds turned up at Blackbushe Airport on 25 September 1966, to see a non-existent race.
In 1991 Sydney Allard was posthumously inducted into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame.
In 2007 Sydney Allard was posthumously inducted into the British Drag Racing Hall of Fame.
There is a part of the course at Prescott Hill Climb known as Allard's Gap, sometimes shortened to Allard's. This resulted from an incident at the Bugatti Owners' Club meeting on 15 June 1947, when Sydney: "shot through the hedge at the semi-circle and landed well out in the field in the single-seater Allard."
There is an Allard bend on the Craigantlet hill climb course, near Belfast.
There is a corner named Allard just after the start at Thruxton Circuit in Hampshire.