Great Reads don't come much better than the tale of Motor Sport's 1957 Christmas Day road test, where Denis Jenkinson took advantage of deserted public roads to take the Lotus 12 single-seater for a blast, with the flimsiest of excuses should he be stopped by the police. Taken from our 100th Anniversary issue earlier this year, and written by the late Gordon Cruickshank.
Christmas Day, 1957. Several men stand outside a pub watching a Ford Consul arrive, pulling a trailer with a small racing car on it. They're conniving in an illegal act, and one of them will confess all in a magazine article. He is Denis Jenkinson, our continental correspondent, and shortly he will take this Lotus 12 on Hampshire thoroughfares…
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