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Autosport: A Matter of Perception

In our series of Best of 2006, this is Nigel Roebuck's column from Autosport Magazine, which was published on September 28th 2006.

Autosport Magazine Nov 29, 2006, 1:16 PM

Last Sunday morning, to a book fair. I wasn't looking specifically for racing books but in recent years there has been a growing proliferation of them at these affairs and a couple of stalls were offering little else. For a fiver I purchased Amateur Racing Driver by one T.P. Cholmondeley Tapper.

Cholmondeley (pronounced 'Chumley') Tapper was born in New Zealand but at 12 came to England with his family - which was clearly one of some substance, for he was eventually "packed off to university in Grenoble" for a couple of years prior to going up to Cambridge. While at Cambridge he decided to go motor racing and this was achieved by the simple expedient of buying a grand prix Bugatti.