Author: Racing Daydreams

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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The Road to Ballyshannon – Gordon Bennett
- Racing Daydreams
- 25 July 2022
- Gordon Bennett
- Ireland
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
It’s not so much raining as there’s more humidity than the sky can bear. It pattered down most of the night. Now it hangs in the air – spritzes as you walk. I quietly leave the rooms, grab a cap from the car, and walk to the town square. Past the memorial plaque, and the […]
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Chasing the Ghosts – Gordon Bennett
- Racing Daydreams
- 14 July 2022
- Gordon Bennett
- Ireland
- Mercedes
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
I’ve always considered ‘Racing Daydreams’ to be an attitude. The willingness to look beyond presented information, armed with some knowledge and an empathy for times & people past. How better to explore and take joy from our sport? Similarly approached, locations too can rattle the senses. Standing in silence at the top of Dundrod. Inhale […]
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40 Years of Daydreams
- Racing Daydreams
- 18 April 2022
- F1
- Grand Prix
- Imola
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Scuderia Ferrari
This Sunday, Ferrari will line-up a pair of turbocharged, ground-effect Grand Prix cars on the Imola grid for their two, young hot-shoes. And I will smile, perhaps raise a glass. Think about what motorsport has given me, and those no longer with us. The day after the 2022 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, Monday 25 April, will […]
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Video: ‘The Mercedes-Benz Story 1886 – 1992’
- Racing Daydreams
- 3 April 2022
- Mercedes-Benz
It’s no secret that I think many things were better in the nineties – not least your humble correspondent! But surely you would agree that documentaries were better when they had time & space to breathe? To make the best of the available footage – to inform through a simple intelligent script, calmly delivered. If […]
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Sascha and The Ace of Clubs
- Racing Daydreams
- 1 April 2022
- Mercedes
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Porsche
- Targa Florio
Small cars hold an attraction – I would imagine since les Frères Renault first took-on the Edwardian giants – and the idea of a smaller car as a generally more efficient machine has held sway. An efficient use of resources, or merely a more stressed & stressful way of covering the same distance? I suppose […]
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The Best, or Nothing – A New Grand Prix Formula for 2022
- Racing Daydreams
- 18 February 2022
- F1
- Grand Prix
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
Director Sailer, who was in great form at the Mercedes dinner, made a most amusing speech concerning his early motor-racing career, and ended up by saying, “Some people think that motor-racing is no longer interesting, because Mercedes-Benz always win – we cannot help this, as we have been winning races for forty years, and do […]
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The Buck Stopped Here – Original BRM Body Jig Found After 70 Years
- Racing Daydreams
- 16 February 2022
- BRM
- F1
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
I’m sure anyone who reads ‘Racing Daydreams’ will be aware that ‘British Racing Motors’ are producing new V16 BRM Grand Prix cars. Quite the thing they are too… perhaps more effective as glorious nostalgia than they were as Formula One cars. All the same, it’s a hell of a project that has just received a […]
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Caracciola’s Over-Blown 1930
- Racing Daydreams
- 6 February 2022
- belfast
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motorsport
- Northern Ireland
H.M.S. Catherwood’s central works, Donegall Road, Belfast. Friday, 22 August 1930 The driver retrieved a half Woodbine from his top pocket. “You still here, cub?” “Aye… til the death. Told me to stand here til I got somethin’.” “Wha? Like pleurisy?.. don’t think that would make the morning paper.” The Bo Peep flared on first […]
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