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A champagne salute to yesterday's heroes
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NO MOTORING pilgrim's progress is complete without a visit to
northern France for a whip-and-spur drive along the D27 that runs
westward from Reims to Gueux. What at first appears to be just
another long, straight, slightly downhill road is flanked by the
neglected but uniquely atmospheric buildings where great drivers,
team managers, mechanics, officials, journalists and thousands of
spectators congregated for races that included the French Grand Prix.
It was first staged here in 1932, when Tazio Nuvolari averaged
92mph for five hours in his Alfa-Romeo. In 1966, just before racing's
safety ...
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Chains and links.(Opinion)
Magazine article from: KMWorld
; Over 60 years ago, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, a professor at Johns Hopkins, gave a series of lectures that resulted in his classic work, The Great Chain of Being. Its central...
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