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I left the photography to Chris (never a bad thing to do), if you were at Thruxton, you will understand why.

Hi Bob,

Hope you are keeping well - good to see you at VSCC Silvestone a few weeks ago.

Just to say Jonny bought me a book for my birthday called A Race with Infamy. It is the Lance Macklin story.

A very interesting read - life and racing drivers were certainly different in those days!

But when I read about how the 1955 Le Mans affected him for the rest of his life I thought of you (in the nicest possible way!) but I don't know if you would even want to read his biography.

However if you would like to let me know and I will bring it with me to the next meeting for you to read.

Cheers,

Mark

Great find Mark, The Author is Jack Berlow a New Zealander! I have ordered a copy today from a seller here in the Land of the Long Wiate Cloud.

You might also like to read John Fitch "Racing Through Life".. he raced at Le Mans with Levegh but never took his seat, you know why. He also raced in the Mille Miglia with Mercerdes winning the production class in his 300SL during the same race that Stirling was wiping the floor .

I was lucky enough to meet John Fitch when I raced at Lime Rock - a track he was heavily involved in from the start.

He was a racing great and I feel very honoured to have met him

cheers
john

Hi John,

Good to hear from you and hope all are well...

I am pleased to hear you have ordered it as it is a very enjoyable read - what those boys got up to in those days...!

And yes the author is a New Zealander and credits his dad for getting him in to writing the book on Lance Macklin.

I will try and get hold of a copy of John Fitch's "Racing through Life."

I read a really good, in depth interview with him in Motor Sport magazine some years ago and he is a very interesting man.

Cheers,

Mark

what those boys got up to in those days...!
"Macklin's social confidence and smooth demeanour made him popular with women, and he would sometimes be more interested in them than racing. Abecassis had been critical of this easy-going attitude: He never cared whether he started in a race or not... Sometimes it was a nightmare to make him practice at all. If there was some blonde he was after he just wouldn't show up."

this was de rigeur for a racing driver in those days and even later and added to the cachet and glamour.
regards

Oops!

Macklin, once described the difference between himself and Stirling Moss, He, Macklin could drive flat out for three laps, Moss could do it all race.

I saw him win the Daily Express International Trophy. for HWM in 1952, my first visit to Silverstone.

Photographs of the action at Brands Hatch are now available via the Morgan Challenge website. We are grateful to Chris Dicken and David Stallard for their excellent work.

Results for the races at Brands are now available via the Morgan Challenge website.

More photos of Brands Hatch by our good friend Bob Bull are available via the Challenge website, many thanks Bob.

The latest points table is now available to view on the Morgan Challenge website.

I think the Morgan factory must have supplied the race series calculator, as there are a few numbers that don't quite add up :wink:

If you tell me which ones I will ask Chris about that.

Sent an email to you and Chris, well two emails , as I forgot the attachment on the first one! #-o