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Monaco 1933 – Icons and the Silver Screen
- Racing Daydreams
- 1 January 2022
- Bugatti
- Grand Prix
- Monaco
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Scuderia Ferrari
How fortunate we are to have YouTube. Luckier still to have enthusiasts uploading footage, new & old, for our entertainment… and education. In that spirit, enjoy this Movietone newsreel of the 1933 Monaco Grand Prix – presented by the excellent ‘Raceday Replay’ channel. Fantastic, isn’t it? The lack of commentary letting us really hear the […]
Read More...“Read All About it!” – The Morning ‘Paper That Saved British Road-Racing
- Racing Daydreams
- 27 June 2021
- Ards TT
- belfast
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Northern Ireland
- RAC
- TT
It’s easy to think that ‘disruptors’ are a modern phenomenon. People who refuse to accept that their idea can’t & won’t revolutionise their field of expertise… or their part of the world. But what are Wallace McLeod & Harry Ferguson if not ‘disruptors’? Men of vision and, more importantly, action! You will likely have heard […]
Read More...The Priest’s Bed
- Racing Daydreams
- 6 April 2021
- Enzo Ferrari
- Ferrari
- history
- Mille Miglia
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Nuvolari
- Scuderia Ferrari
- writing
This is a note I made, on the train And the boy said, “Speak to me of Achille.”. The old man shifted in the bed. Something had nipped him. “What does it matter? It’s over.”. The exclamation stealing his breath, he continued at a whisper. “It is finished. Soon we’ll be dust. Like Campari, like […]
Read More...120 Years of Caracciola: 1926 Grosser Preis von Deutschland (Part II)
- Racing Daydreams
- 21 February 2021
- Berlin
- Caracciola
- Germany
- Grand Prix
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
“No!” Porsche tosses the spark plug back towards the car. He catches the next “hot chestnut” in his handkerchief. Raises the magnifying glass to it. “No!” Rudi fumbles to remove the eighth plug – as the Mercédès creaks & cools – as cars stream past the pits – as the rain continues to fall. Was […]
Read More...Spats in The Sand Pit – The Lost Tripoli Streamliner
- Racing Daydreams
- 15 November 2020
- Bahrain
- F1
- Grand Prix
- Libya
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Tripoli
The 2020 Formula One titles have been decided and the teams are preparing to leave for Bahrain. This season – this mad year – we will see two races at the Bahrain International Circuit, the second of these being held on the high-speed outer circuit. Described variously as an oval(!), or like Thruxton – according […]
Read More...A Last Day in the Sun? – ’55 Targa Florio
- Racing Daydreams
- 9 November 2020
- Fangio
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Stirling Moss
- Targa Florio
Sicily – 16th of October, 1955. Snap! The tail of the silver machine snaps-out from under him… just like at Padova. No time to catch it at 100mph. Spin! Crunch! Falling… “Christ!” The Mercedes hits the rock-strewn ground, fully ten feet below the road. A sickening belly-flop. Landing with the full force of its 900 kilogrammes… and the […]
Read More...Neubauer, The Kilo & The Strippers – ’34 Eifelrennen
- Racing Daydreams
- 8 November 2020
- Grand Prix
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Myth
- Nurburgring
I love a ‘Ripping Yarn’ – a ‘Tall Tale’ – a ‘Shaggy Dog Story’… and a myth or legend is a nice angle for marketing. Just ask the folks at Loch Ness. So let’s talk about ‘Grand Prix Nessie’ – the myth (?) that Alfred Neubauer of Mercedes-Benz ordered all the paint be stripped off […]
Read More...Porsche, Stuck and an odd Auto Union – Lasarte, 1934
- Racing Daydreams
- 7 November 2020
- Audi
- Auto Union
- Grand Prix
- motor sport
- motorsport
- San Sebastian
- Spanish Grand Prix
What do we have here? A cool old photo of Stuck on an Auto Union in the pits. What do we actually have here? Ferdinand Porsche and Hans Stuck look concerned as the front of a rather unique Auto Union A is checked over. It’s September 1934 and we are at Circuito Lasarte – the 11 mile […]
Read More...The 1955 Tourist Trophy, Dundrod
- Racing Daydreams
- 6 November 2020
- belfast
- Dundrod
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Northern Ireland
- RAC TT
One of the many peculiarities of 2020 is the upending of the international sporting calendar. While we are worried & discombobulated, dealing with ‘the new normal’, fettling our Zoom background – wondering how we will pay the rent – the ‘powers that be’ have been scrambling to stage their marquee events. So, we find the […]
Read More...The 1929 Tourist Trophy – Mercedes versus Bentley, in the Belfast Rain
- Racing Daydreams
- 6 August 2019
- Ards
- Ards TT
- belfast
- Bentley
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Northern Ireland
- TT
It’s 90 years since the greatest racers did battle in Belfast. 17th August 1929 saw ‘Tim’ Birkin’s blower Bentley challenge the works’ Mercedes-Benz of Rudi Caracciola, in the rain, for the Tourist Trophy. There was a time when a Grand Prix car, a Le Mans racer, an endurance rally machine were one and the same. […]
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