BMW: My footnote in the history of motor racing.
Read MoreA List of Firsts
First weekend in a posh hotel. Maybe it was Easter. First sight of a Jowett Javelin, only just launched so it was 1948 or 1949. First grown-up kiss with intent. First camera, first pictures of cars at Peebles Hydro. Well-off clientele had Jaguars, Standard Vanguards and elegant upright “razer-edge” Triumph 1800s as they were before 1949.
Read MoreBRM Wins. Classic Archive 014
British Racing Motors never got over the Sunday Pictorial: “FOUR YEARS —18 MEN, £160,000, MUCH OF IT IN HALF-CROWNS, WENT TO BUILD A CAR THAT WOULD NOT START. Jackie Stewart demonstrated the thrilling supercharged sixteen-cylinder masterpiece that jerked only yards off a 1950s Silverstone starting grid. It was ignominy then. Yet three years later, at my first-ever motor race, I saw one win.
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