BRITISH GRAND PRIX. FRENCH GRAND PRIX. CRYSTAL PALACE. REST AND BE THANKFUL AND M.M.E.C. SILVERSTONE

BRITISH GRAND PRIX. FRENCH GRAND PRIX. CRYSTAL PALACE. REST AND BE THANKFUL AND M.M.E.C. SILVERSTONE

(Top) MASTER ! Alberto Ascari never put a wheel wrong in winning the 270-mile British Grand Prix at Silvers tone for Ferrari, while behind the Maserati/Ferrari duels waged. He averaged 92.97 m.p.h. and set a new Formula II lap record, with Gonzalez, of 95.79 m.p.h. (Bottom) FASTEST EVER round Silverstone was Dr. Giuseppe Farina. who established a new lop record of 100,16 m.p.h. in winning the Formle Libre

race in C. A. Vandervell’s Thinwall Ferrari. He averaged 96.79 m.p.h. and kept both B.R.M.s at bay.