Historic Racing Articles
In-depth stories from motorsport history
Bertie Bradnack
Bertie clearly knew his way around a chip and almost certainly enjoyed sustained council with the occasional pie but still managed some respectable results in 500cc Formula 3 in spite of his 18 stone weight.
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Behold EJ Potter: The Half-Baked Prince!
Known affectionately as the Michigan Madman, farmer’s son Elon Jack Potter was possibly the first person ever to look at a Harley-Davidson and think to himself; “you know, what that really needs to make it go, is a nice, big Chevrolet V8”. And then actually go and make the necessary arrangements!
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We like a bit of analogue testing!
Here we find part time inventor, Mr W.T. Warren in 1912, demonstrating his 'Warren Safety Helmet' at William Ewen's flying school in Hendon near London.
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Looking like an amphibious mudskipper, this is the Rover-BRM Gas Turbine at the Le Mans test weekend in 1963
The car was based on the 2.5 litre Grand Prix BRM chassis, cut in half down the middle and widened to make a two seater. At Le Mans that April, the car ran well though they discovered that body let water in just about everywhere and that the rear end had a tendency to lift at high speed!
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Jo Bonnier’s Cooper-Maserati at Spa in 1966.
The race took place in appalling conditions which today would have seen the assembled participants sitting comfortably in their motorhomes until is was safe to venture out.
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Not really a racing post however the 1911 Reeves Octauto was introduced at the Indy 500 that year.
Having looked at six wheel cars in the past, I thought that we would bring you a very early vision into the benefits of multi wheel motoring.
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Looking alarmingly like paramilitaries, here we have Alfred Neubauer (also known as Friedl) in the 1922 Austro-Daimler Sascha.
It really is Neubauer, though you'll have to take our word for that!The Austro-Daimler Sascha was the brain child of Count Alexander Kolowrat-Kratowsky.
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