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Silverstone's First Grand Prix

- 1948 the Race on the Runways
Af: Gordon Blackwell, Anthony Meredith Engelsk Paperback

Silverstone's First Grand Prix

- 1948 the Race on the Runways
Af: Gordon Blackwell, Anthony Meredith Engelsk Paperback
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It was madness: Grand Prix drivers racing flat out from opposite ends of one long runway, only to turn away from each other at the last moment at corners improvised with hay bales. But such was the major part of the first Grand Prix course ever to be devised at Silverstone. Fortunately there were no head-on collisions, and the next year the organisers hit on a more sensible arrangement. But none of the many subsequent Grand Prix at Silverstone, for all the ever-increasing glamour and hype, have quite engendered the same excitement as that very first one in 1948, even though it was held on a long-disused airfield bereft of modern amenities.Silverstone’s First Grand Prix is a vivid recreation of that important day for British motor sport. But it is more than just the description of one historic race. We follow the various leading participants, both drivers and organisers, as fate draws them inexorably to Silverstone from different parts of the world and from very varied experiences, not least in the recent war. And after that one glorious day in early October is over and the RAC’s International Grand Prix of 1948 has become part of motor racing history, we learn what fate had further in store for them.
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It was madness: Grand Prix drivers racing flat out from opposite ends of one long runway, only to turn away from each other at the last moment at corners improvised with hay bales. But such was the major part of the first Grand Prix course ever to be devised at Silverstone. Fortunately there were no head-on collisions, and the next year the organisers hit on a more sensible arrangement. But none of the many subsequent Grand Prix at Silverstone, for all the ever-increasing glamour and hype, have quite engendered the same excitement as that very first one in 1948, even though it was held on a long-disused airfield bereft of modern amenities.Silverstone’s First Grand Prix is a vivid recreation of that important day for British motor sport. But it is more than just the description of one historic race. We follow the various leading participants, both drivers and organisers, as fate draws them inexorably to Silverstone from different parts of the world and from very varied experiences, not least in the recent war. And after that one glorious day in early October is over and the RAC’s International Grand Prix of 1948 has become part of motor racing history, we learn what fate had further in store for them.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 128
ISBN-13: 9781398120662
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1398120669
Kategori: Northamptonshire
Udg. Dato: 15 aug 2023
Længde: 11mm
Bredde: 234mm
Højde: 164mm
Forlag: Amberley Publishing
Oplagsdato: 15 aug 2023
Forfatter(e) Gordon Blackwell, Anthony Meredith


Kategori Northamptonshire


ISBN-13 9781398120662


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 128


Udgave


Længde 11mm


Bredde 234mm


Højde 164mm


Udg. Dato 15 aug 2023


Oplagsdato 15 aug 2023


Forlag Amberley Publishing

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