Dagenham, Essex.<\/p>\n
Sir, \u2022<\/p>\n
I am intrigued with your review of my book ” Wheelspin,” particularly the suggestion for more careful editing. In this connection may I draw your attention to a paragraph at the foot of the same page, and also ask you to count up the number of photographs again !<\/p>\n
Forgive my having a ” dig ” at you, but you do lay yourself wide open. [Agreed I\u2014En.] Anyway, thanks for the nice remarks, which seem to be in excess of the criticisms. You were a bit hard about the “bleeding knuckles ” ; I know you review the book from the point of view of the informed enthusiast, and had the work been written for publication only in a specialised paper, a lot of this stuff would * *<\/p>\n
have been left out, including the first three or four pages. But as this was a book for the open market the publishers pressed particularly for “human interest” stuff. Even if dramatic, the description was not an exaggeration ; that is why the incident has remained so clearly in my mind after so many years.<\/p>\n
I still stick to my observations about Widlake. Speed is mostly relative, and Brooklands is a big place with lots of space round it. On the few occasions that I have driven there I have been surprised, even disappointed, how relatively slow 100 m.p.h. seems. Widlake is narrow, extremely rough, has a high bank on the off side, and a tree-lined drop on the near side and ruts tend to take charge of the steering, added to which rear tyre pressures were usually reduced to under 10 lb.<\/p>\n
As regards the ” knobs ” I can only claim “poetic licence” ; sorry !<\/p>\n
A second edition is already being printed, but there will be no index because of paper and print and labour problems. I should have liked one, and some more photographs. I am, Yours, etc.,<\/p>\n
C. A. N. MAY% Alveehurch, Worcs. [It isn’t so much how fast a car appears to be going up Widlake\/around Brooklands, as how relatively unpleasant seems the possibility of going over the edge, and the probable consequences thereof !\u2014En.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"issue_decade":[121618],"issue_year":[121640],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/46869"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/46869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230935,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/46869\/revisions\/230935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46869"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=46869"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=46869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}