Mick Walker's European Racing Motorcycles Abarth None of those cars come

None of those cars come close to the Escort’s outstanding success in motorsport

Mercedes-Benz 300D Car Sales brochure from 1957

by giving this lightweight sportscar a truly remarkable performance

Prodrive was founded by David Richards CBE – the man who navigated Ari Vatanen's Ford Escort to the World Rally Championship title in 1981

Mick Walker's European Racing Motorcycles Abarth None of those cars comeAuthor: Mick Walker. With foreign built motorcycles generally dominating road and track today, it is perhaps difficult to appreciate that the situation was not always so. There was a time when virtually every manufacturer in Great Britain listed a racing machine in his catalogue and British machines dominated the scene. Between the world wars, Norton, Rudge, Sunbeam, AJS and Velocette shared the spoils of victory despite the efforts of Italy, Germany,