Neville HayPhoto: Kary Jiggle As a small boy my love of cars and motor sport meant I went to every...
As I write these notes, the 2015 season is coming to an end with just a few more Formula One...
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...
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing....
Over the last few weeks, preparations for the 2016 Grand Prix season have been hectic as the teams have to...
Some years ago I was invited to talk “motor sport” at a winter club evening in Bristol and the evening seemed to be going really well until I “dropped a brick.” It happened during the question period, and I was standing before my audience when someone asked, “What do you...
I first watched Niki Lauda as he “learned his trade” in his days with March and BRM, before he won...
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 epitomized courage and daring and for 30 years he amazed the racing world with his exploits on both two and four wheels. He was born November 18, 1892, in Casteldrio...
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...
Motor racing surely can’t complain about the amount of coverage it now receives on television, but transmission of motor sport actually started before WWII, even though there were few viewers of those first programs. There were interviews with drivers, but even when television started again after the war and audience...
