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Balancing The Grid

August 24, 2019 by sjw Leave a Comment

Last Saturday night, on behalf of our publisher, Madison Wells Pty Ltd, we hosted an event for the Motoring Group within the Royal Automobile Club of Australia (RACA) entitled “Balancing the Grid - Women in Motorsport is a Positive Future”. The Guests of Honour were two Australian drivers competing in various categories: Emily Duggan and Chelsea Angelo. The event had a … [Read more...]

The Quandt Family

August 3, 2019 by sjw Leave a Comment

It’s probable that the only people who know who the Quandt family are, are BMW aficionados! The Quandt family saved BMW from a fate that befell many other manufacturers: either bankruptcy or acquisition and brand suppression. The family are one of the richest in Europe and are the masters of keeping under the radar - they do not air their dirty laundry (if they have any) and … [Read more...]

Eric Broadley

June 17, 2019 by sjw Leave a Comment

Lola T70

Eric Broadley was one of those important people in the background of motorsports. He was better known through the name of his company who constructed more than 2,000 vehicles and won championships and races the world over: Lola. Broadley was born in southern England on the 22nd September 1928 and trained as an architect after the Second World War - he would have missed … [Read more...]

Wilhelm Maybach

May 3, 2019 by sjw Leave a Comment

With the renewal of the Maybach name as another sub-brand under Daimler-Benz, we thought it would be good to highlight just how important the Maybach name is to the automotive industry. In fact the names Daimler and Maybach have been connected for over a century in one form or another. Wilhelm Maybach was born in 1846 in a small town in southern Germany, which later became … [Read more...]

Jack Griffith

April 11, 2019 by sjw Leave a Comment

The name Andrew Jackson “Jack" Griffith may not mean much to many people, however to sports car enthusiasts and classic car nuts, he was another genius although his name was initially made by copying someone else's idea! He was born in 1926 on Long Island in New York State and enlisted in the US Airforce in 1943 at the age of 17, being posted to Wisconsin. He met his wife … [Read more...]

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