motorsport
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 […]
Read More...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 […]
Read More...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 […]
Read More...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 […]
Read More...Video: ‘The Niki Lauda Story’
- Racing Daydreams
- 24 January 2022
- F1
- Grand Prix
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Niki Lauda
“Everyone knew Niki Lauda, even my parents, and he was a gateway. A charismatic, clear-thinking, plain-speaking hero whose backstory meant I was immediately hooked. Hooked by motorsport and history.“ I’m always surprised & delighted by the videos that the ‘Race Day Replay’ channel discovers, and makes available. This is one such video – close to […]
Read More...‘Driving to the Future’ – Mario Felice Tecce
- Racing Daydreams
- 24 January 2022
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- review
Although it is not always understood, competition is something very different from any kind of fight: racing certainly implies to beat other contestants, but this is not the main goal. The main goal of true and real competition is seeking to do the best possible. This can only be done using as reference other participants, […]
Read More...Gerhard – Brave, Heart
- Racing Daydreams
- 21 January 2022
- Benetton
- Berger
- F1
- Germany
- Grand Prix
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
Do you know Gary Critcher? Interesting, friendly, talented chap. Perhaps you know his Lotus 72 documentary, or his excellent ‘Shutter & Speed’ photo books? Gary lives in Kenya these days, and is doing a splendid job of dressing-up his new garage and office with memorabilia that he has gathered over his years in & around […]
Read More...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...Jesse Alexander, 1929-2021
- Racing Daydreams
- 19 December 2021
- F1
- Grand Prix
- journalism
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- photography
“…at the Pau Grand Prix in 1955, when an American photographer murmured to me, ‘Is that your Porsche? I’ve got one.’ This was Jesse Alexander, a quiet, gentle, man who was photographing and reporting on European races for various American magazines and living in Switzerland with his wife and four daughters. He had travelled to […]
Read More...Video: ‘The Silver Lady’ – Royce & Bentley
- Racing Daydreams
- 22 November 2021
- Bentley
- Grand Prix
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Newsreel
- Rolls Royce
The video below – courtesy of the Race Day Replay’s YouTube channel – is a look at the 1962 Rolls-Royce & Bentley rally at Blenheim Palace. Fashion may have changed, and the presentation style certainly has, but it is familiar enough scene. It could be the Salon Privé Concours d’Elégance held today… I suspect many […]
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