David Purley was a hero you have probably never even heard of, but a hero he most certainly was. If...
As a team manager my experience of driving racing cars is limited, although at the start of my motor racing...
November 2016 Here’s a nice shot taken in the pits at Brands Hatch before the non-championship F1 Race of Champions on March 20, 1977. This was the first appearance of the Mike Pilbeam-designed F1 car—entered as a LEC but often referred to as a Pilbeam—for David Purley. Purley would finish...
I could talk about David Purley, or Dave as I’ve always known him, all day long, but for the sake...
It’s amazing how some of the names forged into the history of motorsport were first introduced to it. Some have...
1977 LEC CRP1 Month by month, Vintage Racecar tries hard to bring readers some of the world’s finest competition cars—some with impeccable racing pedigrees, or others that have an interesting history. This month, our profile of the 1977 LEC CRP1 F1 car is more about the determination of racing driver David...