Last week the entrants for the Le Mans Historic race were announced and one of the interesting entries featured the only member of the Grand Prix Drivers Club to run in the event and what is more, a multiple winner of the real Le Mans Race; Derek Bell. Indeed for Derek, it is a throwback […]
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Multiple Le Mans winner Derek Bell was awarded an honorary fellowship degree from Cirencester’s Royal Agricultural University where he is an alumni. He spoke to the congregation of students, who were receiving various degrees, about finding a passion, never giving up and always aiming high. It was a beautiful sunny day for the after ceremony […]
Last month at the Royal Automobile Club’s Woodcote Park estate the results of the votes to nominate four new members of the RAC Motor Sport Hall Of Fame were announced. There are four categories, Formula 1, US Motor Sport, motorcycling and sports cars and more than 25,000 votes were cast. The award is run by […]
To commemorate the launch of the new 718 Boxter, Porsche took one of the last of the original 718 racing cars out to Sicily to let Club member Derek Bell drive it round the Targa Florio course. The 718 racer was the final development of the legendary Porsche 550 Spyder. Tim Schenken
For many people in motor racing the first weekend of April brings back sad memories of the death of Jim Clark at Hockenheim on April 7 1968. It is a particularly sad day for our member Kurt Ahrens who not only competed in that fated Formula 2 race but was actually leading the race when […]
Grand Prix Drivers Club President Howden Ganley had a wonderful time at the Monterey Historic weekend recently and sent on some souvenir photographs.