IT’S NOT ONLY MOTORSPORT NEWS CELEBRATING THE NUMBER 65
It is a big number for Motorsport News. Six-and-a-half decades of publishing is a landmark to celebrate, but we are aware that we aren’t the only ones to reach a special number.
We asked statistics hero Peter Higham to bring us the highlights of the number 65 in motorsport. If there is one man to ask it is Peter, the publisher of definitive publications on motorsport history.
He has given us a few pointers as to why the number 65 is not only special to us, but some other very notable people in motorsport too.
BRITAIN LEADS FROM THE FRONT WITH THE MAGIC NUMBER
The first Silverstone Grand Prix race in 1948 runs to 65 laps
In the year 2000, people were up in arms that the British Grand Prix was held on a sodden April weekend. The very first race, some 52 years beforehand,
