Our old friend 'Slug' Thomas used to own one of the 9 ton, 6 wheel Alvis Stalwart troop carriers featured here and he let me drive it once (the fool..) But rest assured I didn't make it do what this Norwegian owner did! Nor Did Slug, to his frustration. Maybe that's why he subsequently emigrated to New Zealand...couldn't hold his head up at the Stalwart owners club meetings?
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British Hillclimb series event with all the fastest F1 and Indycar engined single seaters plus a large entry of other sports cars, saloons and single seaters plus historics.
We will be in our usual location by the Clubhouse between the paddock and the footbridge
"The level of detail is extraordinary...and some truly spectacular photography."
"A poignant reminder of how the sport used to be..." (AUTOCAR January 13 2010)
The long-awaited 'prequal' to the classic FORGOTTEN RACES. This new volume covers the many and varied non championship F1 events from around the globe between 1954 and 1965. This was an era when you saw the Ferrari works team field drivers such as Hawthorn or Surtees at events like the Syracuse GP , when Jim Clark and Trevor Taylor turned up in works Lotus 25's at the Mediterranean GP at Enna, Behra won the Aintree 200 for Ferrari, Ireland won at Solitude for Lotus and Hill won the (in)famous Goodwood F1 event in which Moss's career ended.
Author/editor Ellard has combined high quality reproductions of contemporary reports from places as diverse as Mallory Park and Killarny in South Africa with some wonderfull never-before-seen photos and extensive results and summeries.