Don Vesco

July 7, 2014

Breaking speed records was the norm for Don Vesco, who died just before Christmas at the age of 63. Throughout his life, the Californian set new world marks on both two and four wheels.

Having been a successful motorbike racer, he became the first man to break 250mph on a bike and was aiming to be the first man to hit 500mph in a wheel-driven car. PL

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Paul Lawrence

Here is a man who goes racing every weekend from March to October. Paul’s passion for the sport goes back to when he was a child of the 1960s. He has organised, competed in and marshalled on scores of events, and has written about the subject for 20 years. He is as at home in the paddock at Brands Hatch as in a Welsh forest or at Shelsley Walsh.

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