My first visit to Gurston Down Hillclimb also coincided with it being their first speed event of the new season. It’s a very pleasant experience when you first walk into the farm yard that doubles up as the paddock for the weekend event. You really could be in any period. Look to your left and [...]
Following the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at Imola in 1994, the FIA demanded that aerodynamic changes be made to cars to reduce downforce and cornering speeds by up to 25 percent. Lotus driver Pedro Lamy was at Silverstone circuit testing the upgraded Lotus 107 ready for the next race at Barcelona. Johnny [...]
It was tough times for British Leyland in the mid seventies. Sales were down, with internal politics causing much grief throughout the company. An announcement of a full racing program with its Jaguar marque looked the best way forward and could only serve to boost sales. The car of choice was the Jaguar XJ coupe [...]
Jappic was an extremely pretty single seater of truly minute proportions. Its all enveloping teardrop shape body being designed in 1925 by H.M Walters and built by the coachbuilder Jarvis of Wimbledon, with an all alloy body, the chassis frame being made from ash. The engine was a 350cc single cylinder J.A.P engine which sat [...]
Built in 1962 from a 1961 250 SWB Ferrari for Count Giovanni Volpi’s race team Scuderia Serenissima, the plan was to race at Le Mans and other sportscar series against the new Ferrari GTO. The Breadvan, so called because of it’s van like appearance from the sides and back, was built by engineer Giotto Bizzarrini [...]
A freezing January day saw the annual VSCC Trials take place at the Brooklands museum in Weybridge. As usual with the VSCC and Brooklands museum the day was very much a relaxed affair. With The Trials compromising of twelve different timed tests, including the hill climb, with the drivers being given complex instructions to guide [...]
Looking like a scaled down 1930’s Mercedes GP car, the lightweight special (built in 1933) was built by Alec Issigonis along with his friend George Dowson after blowing up his supercharged Austin Seven. The body-cum chassis was built around aircraft construction principles of the time and is beautifully made, looking perfect from every angle, complete [...]
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