Frank Raymond Wilton “Lofty” England was not head and shoulders above many other men just because he was 6 ft...
February 2011 During the J.C.C. International Trophy race at Brooklands, U.K., on May 6, 1939, Kenneth Evans is shown at full speed in his Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3 Grand Prix car, leaving a great wall of spray behind him. He would finish 4th, one lap down to Prince Bira’s winning...
December 2008 The Donington Grand Prix; Donington, October 3, 1936. Prince Bira coming out of Holly Wood with the ex-Whitney...
From the Donington Grand Prix, held at Donington Park on October 3, 1936, we see Prince Bira coming out of...
Nelson Piquet once memorably described driving a Grand Prix car around Monaco as akin to trying to ride a bicycle...
If you ever see a photograph of Philippe Etancelin in action, chances are you will never forget him. Because he’s the one who raced cars wearing his cap back to front. Phi Phi, as Etancelin was nicknamed, was one of those monied gentleman drivers, a wool merchant who loved to...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he...
One was born in Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1902 and the other in a cramped workshop in Bologna, northern Italy, 35...