One of Britain's best motor racing all-rounders, the late, great Roy Salvadori, was born on this day in 1922. The man who took Aston Martin's first and only overall Le Mans win with Carroll Shelby remembers the fierce battles and the parties that followed in today's Great Read
When I was first taken, as a small boy in the 1950s, to Goodwood, Silverstone and Castle Combe, Stirling Moss was of course the man we all wanted to see. But probably the second biggest draw in British motor racing, the darling of the crowds for his flamboyant speed and the ruthlessly determined way he drove to win, was Roy Salvadori.
A typical national meeting would have separate races for F1, Formula 2, sports-racing cars big and small, saloons and formule libre. As likely as not the tall, debonair Englishman with the Italian name would be in all of them, in a variety of cars: invariably he would be challenging for the lead, and frequently he would be taking it.
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