British motorsport has brought a lot of new ideas to development
England in the war years was a powerhouse of innovation and manufacturing. We’ve all read the lists – radar and the cavity magnetron; Whittle’s jet engine; the rationality of communications-based rational air defence; the lethal forward-firing ‘Hedgehog’ anti-sub weapon that destroyed 70% of the U-boats it engaged. And the emergence of Rolls-Royce’s aircraft V-12 ‘Merlin’, more a creation of intensive day-and-night development than of original design, somehow maintained in large-scale mass production even as
