You can’t read one without the other.

An inquisition into one of the funniest and most original racing books ever written

All hell is about to break loose at the Gerard residence. Young Julian is attempting to make up a model grid of the British Grand Prix, circa 1952, with his collection of Dinky Toys. Not having enough red F1 cars to fill the grid, Julian paints a spare Cooper-Bristol in the Italian racing color and pretends it’s a Maserati.

But Uncle Bob, who always refused to drive or race anything other than British cars, seriously objects to Julian’s new color scheme. “Explain to me why it is in red. And not British Racing Green as God intended.”

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Story by Graham Gauld

I was locked into an interesting discussion recently on motor sport and racing at the end of WWII in Europe and how soon motor sport had restarted in England. It is easy to forget that motor sport in Europe literally stopped dead in 1939 for the next six years save for a few events in Italy in 1940 whilst World War II was going on. Finally, on May 8, 1945 war in Europe came to an end but continued in the Far East.