"Historic Start"

by Michael Turner

Overall Print Size: 50 x 43cm

Limited Edition of 500, each print individually hand signed and numbered by the artist.

The field gets away in the 1948 RAC Grand Prix on October 2nd 1948, the first ever event on the disused wartime airfield at Silverstone. Winner of the race was Luigi Villoresi in the works 4CLT Maserati number 18, who started at the back of the grid with his team-mate Alberto Ascari, who finished second, as their cars had arrived too late for practice