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Motor Racing's Strangest Races Extraordinary but True Stories from Over a Century of Motor Racing (Strangest series)

Geoff Tibballs

A new hardback edition with more than 80 bizarre and extraordinary-but-true stories for car enthusiasts, motorheads, and racing-aholics In 1894, when the motley assortment of steam and petrol-powered vehicles lined up at the start of the trial from Paris to Rouen, motor racing's colorful history wa...

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The Race F1 Podcast

The hosts cited the book while recounting an impromptu 1947 race at Silverstone, noting that it documented the event popularly known as the Mutton Grand Prix. Matt Bishop referenced the title as a source for the story, highlighting its usefulness for uncovering quirky historical races. The mention served to illustrate the book’s value as a repository of unusual motor‑racing anecdotes.

Episode: And Colossally That's History: The amazing stories...

The hosts referenced the book while describing an impromptu 1947 race at Silverstone, noting that the event was documented in Tibble's work.

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as outlined in Geoff Tibble's book, Motor Racing Strangest Races. It was organised by a chap called Maurice ... the event became known rather darkly as the Mutton Grand Prix.

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