Also a forerunner of the hard-headed professional school of drivers. He knew how to behave, certainly - but he also knew how to get what was his due. And I agree, Tom. Moss always said Fangio was the best.
Almost as bad as the paint is the horrible nerf bar (or is it a clothes drying rack?) stuck on the front of that poor old Mercedes.
As for Lennon's Rolls, that is properly fabulous and I'd own that like a shot!
The greatest Grand Prix racing driver never to be World Champion.
My dad encountered him on a vintage car rally some years back. His attitude to proceedings was 'Get out of my bl**dy way!'.
You don't get to be that successful in motor racing without a certain aggressive streak. Very sadly missed.
I saw 2 police vans and a patrol car and 8 or so policemen and women in the process of closing down some incident or other. All well inside the 2 metre 'safety zone'. The most stupid bit was that they actually took the 'suspect' out of one van and marched him to the other one - so he gets to be in close contact with a whole bunch of rozzers and infect or be infected by not one but two police vans.
Yesterday I was parked outside the local supermarket in my 25 year old 530i Touring and a proper bobbed Harley blatted into the next parking bay. Black, proper high apes and big fat back tyre. Rider was wearing shades and cutoffs. I stuck my thumb up as he glanced over - and he completely ignored me and walked into the shop. He seemed to ignore the queue of customers who had been waiting outside as well. Straight out of Sonny Barger's textbook.