Haha, Little Chris, No, my musical career began and thankfully ended with a rendition of The Dambusters March performed on a Descant Recorder!
But that was many moons ago, as was my first encounter with Motor Racing, a race won by Parnell, with Chiron 2nd, followed by Mays, Ashmore, Louveau, Johnson et al also featuring Levegh, Bolster, Gerard, Bira, Sommer, Abecassis and Billy Cotton ( who was a musician!!).
But I remember very little as I was only 4 years old, apart from seeing the many scaffolding poles used building the grandstand at the West Park hairpin. The Jersey International Road Race was held just 2 years after the Liberation of the island, held on a Thursday as that was Early Closing Day. ( And I notice it has featured on TNF about 20 years ago with contributions from among others, Richard Jenkins.) If you google it there are many pics and even movies. Motor Sport Magasine even sent a reporter, and they all seemed to get mightily p*ssed at the end of proceedings.
The 917 was at the Autumn Classic meeting at Castle Combe some years back, and that delightful meeting is being held again in 2 weeks time.
I roamed hither and thither chasing after racing cars, the 60s and 70s mainly, and although i still follow Effwon it's all a completely different kettle of fish now. C'est la vie.
I'm off to Roscoff in Brittany next week, where I may partake of a few moules frites and imbibe some Calvados.
My first Grand Prix was the '62 French at Rouen-les Essarts.
I have a few snaps from the mid-sixties which may be of interest and hope to post some eventually.
I got good advice from Tim Murray regarding how to post pics, but had to post twice and tho' the 2 posts showed up it was some time before the images appeared. (wonder why that was).
Peter.
P.S. I meant to title that post 'Rhapsody in Blue'.
P.P.S. i now live in Bath.
Edited by Autodidact, 11 September 2024 - 10:04.
fictional track for Rfactor1)
