Endurance races, concours events and festivals
So delighted to be invited on the Historic Racing News Podcast to talk about women racing drivers in the run up to Le Mans 100 years. I am about 50mins into the podcast after the amazing news about the auction prices. Enjoy. xx
Chatting to Mark Blundell and Theo Paphitis at Silverstone Classic in 2017 was a hoot to say the least. This is the first attempt of me putting out a podcast on my own, I do hope you have fun listening.
Chatting to Mark Blundell and Theo Paphitis at Silverstone Classic in 2017 was a hoot to say the least. This is the first attempt of me putting out a podcast on my own, I do hope you have fun listening.
Always a great start to the historic racing year with a visit to Race Retro at Stoneleigh Park where the first stop is the Autojumble. Pick up a bargain, find parts you never knew you needed and bump into friends amongst motorcycle petrol tanks. This year a very large tribute to Group B rally cars […]
An event as big as Motorcycle Live one needs to concentrate on a few things to write about so here is a sort of diary of my time at the yearly event. I looked at electric bikes, helmets and a bike brand famous for trials now creating bespoke bikes and still looking cool. I also […]
Lara Platman went reporting for Wheels for Women at the annual Motorcycle Live show at the NEC Birmingham, where she found bargains, stunning bikes and a whole lot of bikes to try. As a new rider I am particularly keen to ‘sit on’ bikes to see if my feet are comfortable on the floor at standstill, to establish their […]
Our photographer Lara Platman took a look at the Goodwood Revival weekend fuelled with speed, theatre, glamour and sublime sunsets. Enjoy the gallery.
Silverstone Classic this year celebrated 70 years of racing at at the circuit. Photographer Lara Platman went for the day to take a look at some of the scenes that make up this incredible day.
Celebrating 25 years of the Festival of Speed, Goodwood had plenty of other celebrations with the 70 years of Porsche and 70 years of the Series 1 Land Rover to name but a few. Lara Platman went along to take a quiet look at some of the cars displayed in the Garden of the Duke […]
Always on the look out for female racing drivers, past or present, I discovered a lady who seems to have missed my radar. Baroness Maria Antonietta Avanzo (1889 – 1977) was the first Italian female racetrack driver and “the most famous Italian woman racing driver of the inter-war period”. She competed in numerous events throughout her career, including […]
Thick fog for fifty miles around Carlisle, mist on the Yorkshire Moors, heavy snow falling from London onwards… and that is before arriving in Monte Carlo after 70 hours of non-stop driving from John O’ Groats, a total of seventeen hundred miles for the Monte Carlo Rally in 1927. Mrs Bruce took it upon herself […]
Only a couple of weeks to Wimbledon and I am already playing with tennis balls, albeit they may be tied to trees, and being hit by wing mirrors? – I am certainly prepared. You see when an invitation to drive off road passes my eyes I leap at the chance to do exactly that, and […]
They say the best ideas are discovered over a drink – or two and whilst at the Guild of Motoring Writers annual awards dinner last December, on my table were the Honda team who, decided that it would be a superb idea to get me on a motorbike and out on the roads. Having already […]