After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing....
Some years ago I was invited to talk “motor sport” at a winter club evening in Bristol and the evening...
Over the last few weeks, preparations for the 2016 Grand Prix season have been hectic as the teams have to pass their safety checks and manage all the other schedules, documentation, travel arrangements, etc. These all have to be completed before they can start the new season. Whatever the excitement...
As I write these notes, the 2015 season is coming to an end with just a few more Formula One...
Motor racing surely can’t complain about the amount of coverage it now receives on television, but transmission of motor sport...
I first watched Niki Lauda as he “learned his trade” in his days with March and BRM, before he won his first World Championship in 1975. His background was Formula Super V and sports cars before joining March, where he paid for his drive. No one should forget that Niki...
Niki Lauda came back into Grand Prix racing, because he could! It has been suggested that he needed the money,...
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He...
Neville HayPhoto: Kary Jiggle After a very successful year in 1935, Prince Chula Chakrabongse, who financed Prince Birabongse’s racing, decided that they should strengthen their team of Voiturette racing cars by adding another ERA to “White Mouse Stable” and disposing of, among their other cars, their Aston Martin Sports car...
Neville HayPhoto: Kary Jiggle As a small boy my love of cars and motor sport meant I went to every...
At the first Shelsley Walsh meeting after the war, only the weather was as predictable as the belief among spectators...
In 1936, Stuck returned to Shelsley Walsh. It was a very wet meeting and Raymond Mays’ Zoller supercharged, 2-liter R4B (not C or D as it became in 1938) managed a time of 41.6. The German driver, Walter Baumer, in the little 750-cc Austin and A.F.P. Fane’s Frazer Nash single-seater...
