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04/05/2024

A few shots from today's Sturminster Newton Car & Bike Meet.

19/03/2024

The Ferrari "Breadvan"

25/02/2024

Just watched the online feed from the Independent Goodwood Photographers Guild exhibition and Awards.
I am truly shocked and stunned by the results!!!!

First - Class 6 - Grubby 'n' Grimy
Second - Class 5 - The Colour Yellow
Second - Class 4 - Revival Atmosphere
and Runner up - Photographer of the Year!

25/02/2024

Sadly cannot be there today, but if you are in the area, why not drop along and see work from many photographers who attended the Goodwood events during 2023. 250+ photos will be on display, including 7 from me.
As there is a public vote run alongside the main competition, I have not posted my entries here (but will do so after the awards have been announced), but these two pictures were my placed photos from 2022.
Good Luck to everyone who has entered.

13/02/2024

Lotus 18, chassis 18-912.
The car used by Stirling Moss to beat the Ferrari team at the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix.
Shot at 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed

07/05/2023

Shots taken at the Status Supercar Night. Looking forward to attending future events organised by them.

05/05/2023

We’re ready for the final push! Fully stocked up on giveaway stickers and Haribo! You know what to do people… get yourself StickeredUp4LeMans 🏎️🏁

25/03/2023

Another article written for StickeredUp4LeMans, in the build up to the Le Mans centenary race meeting.

The countdown continues until the centenary 24 Hours – just ELEVEN weeks to go.

This is also the number of drivers who have won the race driving for the manufacturer with a car nicknamed “the fastest truck in the world”, namely the Bentley Motor Company.

While present at the first race, W.O. Bentley was very sceptical of the concept of a 24 hour race. “I think the whole thing’s crazy,” he declared. “Nobody will finish. Cars aren’t designed to stand that sort of strain for 24 hours.” But he did witness one of his cars come home in 4th place, with the fastest lap, changed his mind, and the dye was cast, starting with a win in the 1924 race with the same car and drivers, John Duff and Frank Clement, who had come 4th the previous year.

As factory commitment to the race intensified, results over the next two years were disappointing, with no Bentley finishers despite the increased numbers of entries. But this was to lead to a golden era as between 1927 and 1930, the Bentley name was to again top the results.

The 1927 event was won by Dudley Benjafield and Sammy Davis in “Old Number Seven” after the pair of works cars were damaged in a multi-car pile-up at Maison Blanche and forced to retire. Although the car was also damaged, their team were able to repair it enough to be able to keep going on the track, repairs which included strapping a torch to the windscreen to replace its smashed headlights!

A year later, the race’s first triple winner, Woolf Banarto, topped the result sheets in 1928, 1929 and 1930, with a different co-driver each year, namely Bernard Rubin (1928), Henry Birkin (1929) and Glen Kidston (1930). But then the team was disbanded, a victim of the Great Depression, with the company sold to Rolls Royce, and the name consigned to racing history books with just the eight original “Bentley Boys” as winners.

That was to change in 2001, when the name Bentley returned to the entry list as part of rebranding brought about by Bentley becoming a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group. A three year project was launched, and in 2003, three more “Bentley Boys” were added to the winner’s list when Dindo Capello, Tom Kristensen and Guy Smith won.

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11/03/2023

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21/01/2023

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17/01/2023

Author: Ian Wagstaff Publisher: Porter Press International Published: 5 December 2022 Pages: 320 Price: £69.00 ISBN: 978-1-913089-61-0 Illustrations: Over 350 colour images Format: Hardback Coming …