Simon's Blog

The arrival of a new book by the author of the FORGOTTEN RACES coincides with Simon's bad back allowing him 'time off' to read the stock.... and a great read it turns out to be!

Traffic is unusually sparse on the A38 south of Exeter. I'm looking down on it from a small agricultural flyover bridge  and wondering how much longer we'll be sat in a queue of cars that stretches across it's entire span, and then some, and hasn't...

This week I got an order for a photo of Curly Dryden (seen here in the centre, arm raised) , a prominent driver of Formula 3 cars back in the early 1950s. These were the days when such cars ran  500cc J.A.P. speedway  or Norton ‘doiuble knocker’...

Superstition or not? On this occasion the old maxim held true... painfully true. A tale of three 'Wrongs' on the trot as our season of car trialling comes to a sudden halt and Daphne the Beetle bites...

Our fourth attempt at an event that predates almost every other motor sport contest on earth - running for the first time way back in 1904, The Edinburgh always seems to combine joy and frustration... and it did this time too!