{"id":24100,"date":"2014-07-07T18:59:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/davidstow-a-history-of-cornwalls-f1-race-circuit\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T04:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T03:24:39","slug":"davidstow-a-history-of-cornwalls-f1-race-circuit","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/august-1996\/54\/davidstow-a-history-of-cornwalls-f1-race-circuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Davidstow \u2014 A History of Cornwall&#8217;s F1 Race Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Davidstow \u2014 A History of Cornwall&#8217;s F1 Race Circuit, by Peter J Tutthill. West Country Motor Books, \u00a39.95.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those who like me were ignorant of Cornwall&#8217;s Formula One connections have no further excuse with the publication of this soft-back, describing the six meetings at Davidstow between 1952 and 1955. Boasting the first ever F1 wins for Lotus and Connaught, the airfield track also saw the only bridge collapse at a British circuit, and appears to have featured even worse weather than Knockhill.<\/p>\n<p>Every race and entry is listed, including such fascinating motoring footnotes as the Halseylec, the Sphinx, and a Cooper-Connaught with convincing Disco Volante body, while Ken Tyrrell&#8217;s foreword recalls that he holds a lap record from Davidstow. Tutthill cites weather and isolation from &#8220;the mainland&#8221; in apologising for some poor photographs, and some really are grim: but history is history. G C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":750,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,182,115471,34642],"issue_decade":[121596],"issue_year":[121616],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/24100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/24100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253886,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/24100\/revisions\/253886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24100"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=24100"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=24100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}