Testing times for all
Tennyson nearly wrote: “In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of racing.” And if he actually had written it, he would’ve been even more right than he nearly was. For, having endured the second darkest winter in Northern Europe since records began with every day dawning greyer than the last, the 2018 racing season – and its colourful promise of summer sun, ice cream, hot tarmac and motorbikes – will arrive at a Fenland garret near me not a moment too soon (if you don’t count the Dakar rally, which we
