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Motor Racing at Brands Hatch in the Seventies Item #M068 - $24.95
	"I'd caught a Maidstone & District coach to the circuit from Bexhiss and, when I arrived, I stopped off into a very large puddle. I looked around to find the quickest route out of the water but there wasn't one; the puddle seemed to extend as far as I could see in each directions. It was raining very, very hard and within a couple of minutes I was very, very wet. Being young, I viewed rain as an inconvenience rather than a protential cause of pneumonia and so I trotted off in the knowledge that I was already as wet as it was possible to get, and that there was little point worrying about it. I spent the next six-and-three-quarter hours - that was how long the race lasted - walking round and round, getting to know every inch of Brands Hatch, like the back of my hand. "Signs were different in those days; I found one next to the bridge over Pilgrim's Drop, on the long part of the circuit, with a large arrow pointing back the was I'd come. It read: 'Toilets, Refreshments and Druids.' The latter, I assumed, being on sale with a premium charged for High Priests." "After that visit I was hooked, and spent many weekends over the next decade standing up at Druids Hill hairpin, my favourite spot, watching a feast of motorsport. Chas Parker was an ordinary spectator at Brands Hatch so, through word and picture, this book is a genuine reflection of what it was like to be amongst the crowd of enthusiasts at one of Britain's favourite circuits during a great era of motorsport." By Chas Parker Publisher: Veloce Publishing - 2004 Hardbound, 8½" x 7¾" / 21cm x 19.5cm 94 pages. 150 (mostly colour) illustrations
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