from little road trips to big adventures
Martin Haven bumped into Photographer and Author Lara Platman at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2018 and they had a little chin wag about the Festival and what Lara was up to at the moment.
Springtime maintenance for the car looks at using thinner lubricants for the engines the fan belt may have also been disconnected during the winter months and it is a perfect time to reconnect it. Also make sure one has removed the radiator muff for the spring. Whilst the winter is quite a reverse, pop on […]
Women have been racing and driving fast since the invention of the combustion engine. Intrepid ladies such as Camille de Gast who, in 1903, became the first woman racing driver, and before her Bertha Benz, the wife of Karl Benz (of Mercedes Benz), who in 1888, was the first woman to drive a motor vehicle […]
Lara Platman chats to Daisy Sadler in Lara’s 1964 Series 2a Land Rover. Lara and Daisy soon realise the noise of the engine is too loud for them to talk over, so Lara pulls over and they have a far more peaceful and lovely chat at the side of a road on top of a […]
Lara Platman chats to Daisy Sadler in Lara’s 1964 Series 2a Land Rover. Lara and Daisy soon realise the noise of the engine is too loud for them to talk over, so Lara pulls over and they have a far more peaceful and lovely chat at the side of a road on top of a […]
A chatty little handbook for all women who motor or who want to motor Dorothy Levitt’s The Woman and the Car: A chatty little handbook for all women who motor or who want to motor by Dorothy Levitt, was published in 1909. It perfectly captures the adventurous, even reckless, spirit of these early girl racers. Here […]
We look forward to an exciting Moss Trophy, where Katarina Kyvalova in car number 11, 1960 Austin Healey 3000 Mk1, with co pilot Jeremy Welch, and Holly Franchitti in car number 17, 1963 AC Ace-Ford for Ten Tenths Ltd with co pilot James Wood, will be racing this weekend at the Goodwood 76th Member’s Meeting. Good […]
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 […]
I am still rather a novice when it comes to riding my motorbike, very much a what’s the weather like? What’s the road going to be like? When do we stop and so forth… I am of much more of a four wheel person at the moment especially as I have just restored my 1964 […]
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 […]
It has been a while since I have been on a date and wondered what ingenious ways I could conjure up to acquire one. I remembered when I was riding a twist and go Vespa Scooter in London years ago I would quite easily meet people at traffic lights, so with this in mind I […]
Lara Platman meets Jenny Tinmouth, currently the record holder of the the fastest lap around the IOMTT track for a female. We meet Jenny in the garage surrounded by Honda Bikes.
Lara Platman talks to Howard Donald at Silverstone Classic
Lara Platman talks to Maria Costello at Silverstone Classic
Lara Platman talks to Racing Driver Anthony Reid at Silverstone Classic.
Lara Platman talks to Olympic Champion, British Skeleton Racer Amy Williams at Silverstone Classic
Lara Platman meets Jenny Tinmouth, currently the record holder of the the fastest lap around the IOMTT track for a female. We meet Jenny in the garage surrounded by Honda Bikes.
Lara Platman talks to Howard Donald at Silverstone Classic
Lara Platman talks to Maria Costello at Silverstone Classic
Lara Platman talks to Racing Driver Anthony Reid at Silverstone Classic.
Lara Platman talks to Olympic Champion, British Skeleton Racer Amy Williams at Silverstone Classic
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 […]
After returning from the Rallye Des Princesses last week as photographer on the event for Richard Mille and Classic Driver, the Gordon Bennett rally begins this week and Le Mans 24hour race next. My mind returns to the plethora of trailblazers that I am researching, such as: Doreen Evans (had a brief three year career […]
