are now history, but the event took place in spite of it all.
As Silverstone is a very fast circuit, we would permit our largest-engined single-seaters to race and the entry would no doubt have numerous 3.8-litre Jaguar-engined single-seater Listers, Tojeiros, H.W.M.s, and single-seater Jaguar D-types, while Brooks and Salvadori would have been on ” monoposto ” 3.8-litre Aston Martins, and if we opened this Class A to cars up to 4½ litres there would no doubt be many more entries. Of course, there are some people who cannot afford transporters and have to drive their cars on the roads, but they are few. The obvious question now is, ” Why go on with racing/sports cars ?,” or conversely,” Why go on with Grand Prix cars ? Ferrari are building a special single-seater for this event, and Maserati have all the drawings finished for a single-seater V8 Maserati suitable for the Monza track. If anyone is going to insist that converse of what I have proposed should be encouraged, then all right, let us encourage our racing/sports to become less racing and more sports, anti the first thing to do is to make adequate room for a passenger and insist that passengers be carried in all sports-car races.

If it can” improve the breed ” then that is a bonus from the original idea, and if we are going to race seriously —and there is nothing taken so seriously as a ” sport “—then racing has to become scientific and the present-day racing/sports car is not scientific, so let us drop the sports and concentrate on racing cars.—D. If we took the existing Formula I cars of 2½-litres as our basis for Class B, the Formula II cars as Class C and made Class D for cars with a limit of 1,000 c.c.. we would have four logical stages of single-seater development and drivers could make steady but sure progress from a 1,000-cc. engines and suspension units. track racing, for that is the last thing I want to see, but I do think we can incorporate some of the U.S.A.C. and run to the same pattern, and there is a good degree of sensible uniformity about the whole thing. Bacciagaluppi, the director of the Monza circuit. To access your subscription or free account.Sign-up now for access to a limited number of articles.OVER the past few ycars in International racing, the sports car has become so highly developed that it has accepted the title of racing/sports car, and many of them have been very thinly-disguised Grand Prix cars.
It was also used for racing. One of the reasons for inviting the Indianapolis boys to Monza was to try and spread some of the American single-seater racing ideas and feelings into European racing circles, for in the racing all over America organised by the United States Auto Club only single-seaters are permitted, and these events range from ¼-mile Midget tracks to Indianapolis, through various engine sizes and chassis lengths, and from small tracks and short races to long tracks and long races. Now here we have to admit we're cheating a little, because the Caparo T1 was technically a two-seater, but that second seat was something of an after-thought.

Such things as wishbone i.f.s„ de Dion rear, inboard brakes, five-speed gearboxes, space-frames and so on are a for a successful racing/sports car.Now, as far as any factory team is concerned, and most private owners as well, these racing/sports cars are, taken to meetings on transporters and used purely for racing, for the simple reason that if the car has been prepared for a race then driving it on the road to the meeting would take the fine edge off the tune, so that the car would start the race not in 100 per cent. Class B would also have events at the same places, plus the Nurburgring, Zandvoort and similar less fast circuits, while wiggly circuits like Monaco, Pau, Naples, etc., would be for Class C and Class D, and by a little careful thought and some trials the best class for any given circuit could soon be decided upon.If we feel that traditional races, such as Le Mans, should be kept for sports cars then let us do so, but insist that they are sports cars and catalogue ones in mass-production such as Jaguar, Austin-Healey, Triumph, etc., not small-production cars such as Lotus, Elva, Maserati, etc.That there is enormous-enthusiasm for motor racing today is self-evident wherever you look, but it is badly in need of organisation, for it often shows signs of running amok, and at the recent Silverstone B.R.D.C.