Nunney Court: the original home of British racing - Telegraph

Nunney Court: the original home of British racing - Telegraph

Modern Grand Prix fans may regard Silverstone as Britain’s current Formula One epicentre, but enthusiasts of a certain age know that in the Sixties and Seventies the motorsport capital was elsewhere – in the village of Nunney, near Frome, in Somerset.

For Nunney Court, the Grade II listed manor house and estate that dominates the village, was the home of Rob Walker, F1’s most successful private team owner.

While big sports-car manufacturers like Ferrari and Lotus were, even half a century ago, running their own teams, Walker took a simpler route. As a descendant of whisky mogul Johnnie Walker, he used some of the family fortune to buy cars from established teams, change their liveries to his beloved Scottish blue and white, and tune them at his workshops in Dorking. He then asked drivers he liked and respected to take the wheel