WHY NOT A CITY CENTRE GRAND PRIX?

March 22, 2022

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

JIMMY AND JACKIE STEWART 1989 Archive 008

February 25, 2021

Jackie Stewart pontificated and name-dropped when he was selling Jaguars from the family garage in Dumbarton. Then it was his brother Jimmy, not he, who was the local hero racing driver. Jimmy Stewart cut short a promising career after crashing heavily at Le Mans. His mother worried until Jimmy, a gentle, unaggressive son, hung up his helmet. Jaguar E-typre FSN1 Dumbuck demonstrator at Turnberry Eric Dymock picture.