Sunday Magazine 11 October 1981

A full-scale British Grand Prix sweeping through Parliament Square with Big Ben showing a new lap record was a piece of artist Geoff Hunt’s imagination. But racing cars tearing along Park Lane at 180mph, braking hard into the sharp right-hander by the Hilton Hotel, and going flat out in fifth gear past the Serpentine— all very possible and long overdue, according to Innes Ireland, veteran of 50 world championship races