In this era of the professional racing driver ’workforce’ being continuously topped-up by childhood karting stars who effectively grow from the age of seven or eight utterly immersed in racing and racing alone, it’s inevitable that any look back to earlier times so often highlights just how naive (in comparison) even very good hands of old could be about race driving.
For instance, one of the finest yet now widely forgotten or underrated of British drivers from the 1930s was the Hon. Brian Lewis, later Lord Essendon. When launched in 1935,magazine (The Official Organ of the The British Racing Drivers’ Club) adopted a refreshingly breezy approach, in effect aimed from racing insiders outward, as distinct from journalistic ‘keen types’ on the outside trying to report upon matters within.
