A reader

A reader, by minute detective work, tells me that the picture used with my piece on the 200hp V8 Darracq shows the car at Saltburn in 1909, not 1908. This is confirmed, he says, by Tate’s 1908 GP Mercedes just visible in the background. A line deleted from my article did refer to Saltburn in 1909, when the Darracq clocked 121.25mph, the third two-miles-a-minute achieved by this remarkable car.