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Same day, late afternoon. The chap with the microphone built cars in his garden shed in England.

 

 

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Jim Clark and Jackie Steward at the 1964 Indy.

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Jim Clark, Indianapolis, 1964.

 

Sorry to be a pedantic arse: these are shots from 1965, the winning and thge Firestone badge on the overalls gives it away.

In 1964, they used Dunlop tyres and this happened:

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The R-100 Streamline car with its designer Sir Denniston Burney, 1931.

 

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R to L Wolfgang von Trips, Jo Bonnier, Graham Hill, Tony Brooks, Stirling Moss and Bruce McLaren.

The wee lad getting his first driving lesson from the assembled Formula 1 elite, is none other than Damon Hill.

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Doreen Evans at Brooklands, July 1935.

It's safe to say that it wasn't lemonade what was in that tumbler.

 

She was the youngest child in a motor-racing family whose business, the Bellevue Garage in Wandsworth, was a leading MG agency. With her brothers Dennis and Kenneth she competed in MGs in the Bellevue team, and at Le Mans in Captain Eyston’s ‘Dancing Daughters’ team.

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Kay Petre at Brooklands in May 1930. She was only 4'10" tall, hence her wrestling partner of choice was a 10.5 litre V12 Delage.

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Kitty Brunell tuning her 1932 AC Ace. She used Brooklands only for testing and tuning and only drove competitively in rallys.

She won the 1933 RAC.

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Mrs Aclace signals from the pits during the JCC 200 mile race at Brooklands, August 1938.

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Irish 'Flying Fay' Taylour at Brooklands in 1930. She was a champion speedway rider before switching to race cars.

She was interned as a fascist during the Second World War because she was said to have had an affair with Oswald Mosley.

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Gwenda Stewart in 1935. She took the ultimate Ladies Outer Circuit lap record at 135.95 mph.

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Mrs Gordon Simpson and Joan Richmond enjoying fags in the latter’s 1921 3-litre GP Ballot racer, July 1934.

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Elsie “Bill†Wisdom confounded the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club sceptics to master the unpredictable 7.2-litre Leyland-Thomas by winning Britain’s first 1,000 mile race at an average speed of 84.41mph, partnered by Joan Richmond, in 1930.

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“Bill†Wisdom and Joan Richmond, July 1932, in what I believe is an Aston Martin 1.5 Ulster.

I stand corrected if it isn't one.

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These are the three MGs that were entered for Le Mans by land speed record breaker George Eyston. The entry was nicknamed the ‘Dancing Daughters’, after a popular variety act of the time. 

The drivers were : Car 54 – Margaret Allen & Coleen Eaton, Car 55 – Doreen Evans & Barbara Skinner, Car 56 – Joan Richmond & Miss Joan Simpson. July 1935.

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