Peter Collins: a breed apart

July 7, 2014

David Rothauser – DVD

A labour of love, celebrating a time when drivers approached their motor racing with a strong sense of fair play and few embodied this more than Collins. This charts his grand prix and sports car career from 1950 to 1958, but it isn’t just another tribute Rothauser explores Collins’s legendary sporting spirit, exemplified by him relinquishing his car to Fangio In 1956 when he was poised to become Britain’s first World Champion. Interviews with Sir Stirling Moss, Donald Healey, Olivier Gendebien and members of Collins family and his nanny reveal that Collins was adored and respected in equal measure a shame, then, that some of the dubbing is poor. But the overwhelming impression is admiration for a prodigious driving talent PH

US$60, Memory Productions (+1 617 232 4150, or e-mail to: [email protected])

Peter Higham

Database curator

A Ronnie Peterson fan from the moment he saw the 1973 International Trophy on TV, Higham joined Autosport's advertising department in 1986. The next 28 years were spent working (almost exclusively) within the company's motor racing division, including being a director of LAT and running the Autosport Awards. Freelance since 2014, Higham's four published books include the World Encyclopaedia of Racing Drivers.

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