Last month we lost another grand prix driver of the 1950s with the passing of Fritz d’Orey the Brazilian driver best known – one might say only known – by the fact that he was the only person to actually race the Tec-Mec Maserati Formula 1 car. To the present day generation the Tec-Mec is…

The whole Coronavirus affair reminded me of my two-year stint in Hong Kong back in 1993 – 94 and the motor racing community. Obviously there was no actual motor racing in Hong Kong but the Automobile Association of Hong Kong organised the odd motor racing event at Pattaya in Thailand and there was also the…

When it comes to the building of “Specials” the Americans probably lead the field and some years ago at the Laguna Seca historic races, I bumped into Terry Buffum a keen member of the historic racing group in the States. The car he drove on that occasion was the Parkinson-Special that was Jaguar powered and was…

Throughout the history of automobile racing, there have been the nice guys and the not so nice guys, the guys who go out and get on with the job and the aggressive ones, and Enzo Ferrari has had a few in his time. However, anyone who was around the circuits in the 1980s could not…

Those of you who regularly visit this page on the Grand Prix Drivers Club site will have noticed that motorsport photography has been my interest throughout my life as a motoring journalist. It has been an adjunct that has helped boost the income from articles and books I have written and though it has been…

I want to take you back to September 17 1955. I was on a Vickers Viscount aircraft on my way from Edinburgh in Scotland to Belfast in Northern Ireland. It was a happy return trip for me because in the previous two years I had been based just outside Belfast when serving with the Royal…