How the RAF helped make Britain a sports car mega-power

How the RAF helped make Britain a sports car mega-power

What else to do with an abandoned airfield but make a world-class GP circuit or test track? Why are the British so good at making sports cars? It's a question put to me in an interview recently, to which a previous interviewee had said that, in times gone by (maybe even now), only the British would be barmy enough to stand in a small, cold shed and decide that a world-class small sports or racing car might roll out of the doorway. I think there'…