Nothing New...

Bearing out the old adage that there’s nothing new under the sun or the stars, and in view of the enthusiastic crowd invasion which greeted Mansell’s victory in the recent British GP at Silverstone, this comment was appended to a report of a Southport 100 Mile sand race in 1928, after it had been won by Raymond Mays in the Vauxhall-Villiers: “the moment he was signalled-in, the crowd, completely disregarding the fact that some of the smaller class-winners still had nearly 20 minutes’ running to do, surged across the course. Stables (2-litre Bugatti) and Mason (3-litre Austro-Daimler) had to force a way through a seething mob, who only then realised either danger or responsibility”.