A record-breaking (seventh) win
It seems strange now but in 1963 it was part of motor racing tradition: Christmas and New Year meant South African sunshine. Read more…
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Happy e-Christmas
Time was when the publication of the latest collection of Michael Turner Christmas cards signalled the genuine arrival of Christmas. Read more…
Rossfeld
Although we’re forever being told that the age of the “physical” book is over, I’m constantly amazed by the plethora of new motor racing titles that appear in the course of a year. Read more…
More hectic than racing
Continuing our year-long diary of Jim Clark’s epic 1963 season. When we last reported, Jim had flown straight to Indianapolis from Mexico in order to test the new four-cam Ford V8 Lotus 29B. Read more…
The Best in the West
WilliamsF1 celebrated their 600th Grand Prix start in 2013. Here are a few thoughts – and memories – of times that will always make me smile
Before Silverstone, 1979, there were others. Read more…
Santa Catalina is awaitin’ for me…
I’ve talked quite a lot on the show, and on these pages, about the excellence that was Warwick Farm – about Jim Clark learning to fly over at Bankstown aerodrome, just up the road, and about how he and Graham Hill used to land their Cessnas on the Farm’s polo field before jumping into their Tasman Lotus. The Farm was the epitome of those two simple words – “motor racing”. It was a case study in slick organization (courtesy of Geoffrey Sykes); it was a circuit that combined fast corners with slow, rhythmic esses with a double-apexed, negative-cambered left-hander; and it was all about green grass, fluttering flags, a hot Australian sun and the smell of high-octane fuel. Give me the Farm and you’ll give me my lifeblood. Read more…
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