My love of motorsport is more a love of speed rather than racing, although it could be considered as a race against time. When I was a boy, John Cobb made a significant impression on me, it was the clever things about the man himself that so attracted me. Not only was he a great racer, but he held the lap record at Brooklands at over 143mph; how he ever got to an average of that speed on such a…
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