Category: Classic and Historic Racing Cars
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Donington Historic Festival 04/05 May 2024 (with thanks to the XJS Club)
Thursday 2nd May dawned with an e mail from Motor Racing Legends (MRL) informing us that it had been acquired by Aythorpe Promotions Limited (APL). APL is led by prominent historic racer Shaun Lynn. I have had the pleasure of racing with the MRL organisation between 2014 and 2021 in…
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An Americano With an Extra Shot Please……..
…….. was the answer I gave to the lady on the coffee kiosk at the Bicester Scramble on Sunday morning. It was cold so I chose the Americano rather than my usual Double Espresso. What has coffee got to do with anything you ask? Well it seems a number of…
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The Right Crowd and No Crowding
The Goodwood Road Racing Club 81st Member’s Meeting The modern version of the annual Goodwood Member’s Meeting started in 2014 with the 72nd version. Significantly and only for The Member’s Meeting, the age limit for cars racing on the circuit is increased to 1982, in order to permit the Group…
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Goodwood does MG
You like motorsport and you are reasonably well off but you’re not a milionaire. You like the idea of racing but you don’t have a car. You’ve looked at historics and note that there are loads of Cobra’s, GT40s, E Types and Elans, but amongst all of them, there’s an…
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Vintage Sports Car Club Pomeroy Trophy 2024
In the late Douglas Adams’ book “The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, a super computer known as “Deep Thought” takes eons to work out the answer to life, the universe and everything. In fact it takes so long to calculate that the computer forgets the question. I suspect Douglas based…
Peter Mallett Racing 