THIRTY YEARS AGO – Simon’s Competition Debut. Easter 1991
I was 24 when I finally realised my long held ambition of competing in motor sport. It was 30 years ago this Easter Monday . A sobering thought. My daughter…
Read moreON THE BEACH – Racing at Vazon Bay 20 Years Ago
The anniversary actually passed before I realised it, so this “20 years ago” piece is a little late. But then in 2020 almost nothing has gone to plan for any…
Read moreThe Armchair Enthusiast 2 : International GT Open
With the chance to get out and attend race meetings seriously curtailed in 2020 live streaming of race series online has provided a very welcome substitute and some surprise finds.…
Read moreThe Armchair Enthusiast 1: British GT Championship 2020
With opportunities to get out and watch events seriously curtailed this year I have been almost entirely restricted to the role of ‘armchair enthusiast’ and taken my fix of motor…
Read moreBack Behind The Wheel : The Exmoor Clouds Trial 2020
The world has changed since we last took an active part in motor sport in the eary days of spring. Now it’s the start of autumn and I’m sat in…
Read moreWorld Champions Down In The Woods : Network Q Rally GB Media Days 1998-99
Two decades ago last November the World Rally Championship decended on a picnic area beside a lake in the Forest of Dean for the annual pre-Rally GB (or RAC Rally…
Read moreFormula One Tractors….Not As Uncomman As It Would At First Appear.
With RACING POINT due to rebrand itself ASTON MARTIN in 2021 it marks the latest in a short but select line of F1 teams that (in name at least) trace…
Read moreA Coach With A Past . Our 1937 Bedford WTB JT 8077
When I was young my Dad and several like-minded friends formed a group to save and restore a derelict 1937 Bedford WTB coach that one of them had found rotting…
Read moreSUDDEN FASCINATION 3 :THE GNOME MONOSOUPAPE ROTARY ENGINE
Recently, while reading a couple of autobiographies by World War One fighter piltos, I became increasingly entranced by the engineering of the machines they flew. In particular by the curious,…
Read moreSudden Fascination 2 – Trojan Utility Cars
Some years ago I was dozing off in my chair at a particularly ‘slow’ Beaulieu Autojumble where the crowd was sparse and sales… only an ambition. A kindly lady ,…
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