Gauld hitches a ride back to the pits with friend Innes Ireland in his Lotus 19, after Ireland won a sports car race supporting the British Grand Prix. Ireland’s personal inscription on the photo, “...you’ve never looked lovelier,” underscores his notoriously dry sense of humor.
Graham Gauld has written more than 16 books and been deeply invovled in the hobby for over 60 years.
He speaks and writes with a lilting Scottish accent that defies and ignores commas and periods. He claims he is not a motor racing historian but a storyteller, yet has a huge library in his head with remarkable recall of the most obscure details that add depth and experience to his tales. Says Ferrari restorer Allen Bishop, “I enjoy GG’s writings far more than much of the contemporary, boring, canned so-called automotive history that is circulating today.”
Another unabashed fan is former Prancing Horse editor Jeff Allison. “Graham is the quintessential storyteller who’s a master at mixing his personal experiences and recollections with the background and history of his subject. I’m certainly guilty of calling him a storyteller, but I also believe he’s one of our leading historians. To me, his book, Modena Racing Memories—Italian Sports Car and Grand Prix Racing 1957-1963 is a seminal volume about motor racing and the automakers around Modena.”
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