On day two of practice, he lost control between Ballystockart and Dundonald, crashing through the front garden of a local insurance agent after which he required hospital treatment.

[8] For the major EifelRennen race at the Nurburgring in Germany on 28 May, Hamilton had entered the car in the 800cc class – to tackle 12 laps of the demanding 14.2-mile circuit.

During the race he kept pace with far more powerful 1,500cc category cars and even the slower Grand Prix machines – finally winning his class by a staggering 24 minutes.

[9] Hugh Hamilton took an outright victory in the 19-lap cyclecar class race of the 1932 Großer Preis von Deutschland at the Nürburgring, which was run concurrently with the main Grand Prix.

In the 1934 Swiss Grand Prix, Hamilton, driving a Maserati 8CM, crashed into a fir tree after his front left tyre failed at 150 km/h around 1500 meters from the finishing point.