Year: 2023

Race to Disaster – The Ards TT
- Racing Daydreams
- 14 May 2023
- belfast
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Northern Ireland
The phone vibrated on my office desk. A glance to see the notification… email… subject line, “TT Film”. Curious, I locked the work laptop and read the message… it was about the Ards TT. Dear Colin, I came across your website in the course of doing some research for a film I am making for the BBC […]
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Elliott Zborowski – Death on the Corniche
- Racing Daydreams
- 8 May 2023
- France
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
1 April 1903, the motoring greats were set for the literal high-point of Nice Week – the hillclimb from Nice to La Turbie. 1903 was planned and expected to be a huge year for the sport, and Mercédès in particular. There were 12 of their 60hp machines in Nice, including a brand-new one for Count […]
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Avenues & Alleyways – The 1903 Mercédès Limousine
- Racing Daydreams
- 18 April 2023
- France
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what value a location? To stand on a street corner and watch the world scurry past. To stop and smile at the thought of the excitement, innovation, history that once filled a space, so mundane today. The Mercedes-Benz entry for the 1952 Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo […]
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Ici Repose Jean Behra
- Racing Daydreams
- 16 April 2023
- F1
- France
- Grand Prix
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
Follow tramline 1 in Nice towards its northern extremity – until it is just you and some shoppers heading to Saint-Sylvestre. Hop off at Gorbella – walk past Lidl & Monoprix. Take a left, up the hill – to Mont Claire Virenque – and there opposite the lycée you will find Cimetière Saint Barthélémy… and […]
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Bill Mason’s Finest – Racing Mercedes
- Racing Daydreams
- 8 March 2023
- France
- Grand Prix
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
How lucky we are that film-maker Bill Mason shared our passion, and used his talent & time to leave a legacy for future generations. From the outset, that first Shell film of the 1949 British Grand Prix, Bill’s work attracted & inspired followers of motor racing. Increasingly, as the decades have passed, the films have […]
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