I guess it comes to most of us. I mean the day on which one realises that a time has come – we really are sliding down the razor blade of life – and that dotage beckons. In some ways that happened to me yesterday. My grandson called in after school, and over a drink and a biscuit he just glanced at me and asked: “So – what have you been doing today?”.
Doug Nye: Archive shots of the world's richest single motor race
Doug Nye began writing about racing cars at ‘Motor Racing’ magazine in 1963-64. Today he is a multiple award-winning motor sports journalist and author of over 50 years’ experience, with some 70 books to his name. He is Goodwood Motorsport’s founding Historian and consultant and fulfils similar roles for Bonhams Auctioneers and the Collier Collection/Revs Institute in Naples, FL, USA. He is a member of the National Motor Museum Advisory Council at Beaulieu, Hants, and is a regular columnist for ‘Motor Sport’ magazine, while contributing to many other specialist periodicals worldwide.
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