Artemas DRIVE

The backdrop seems so incongruous: an area of protected woodland in central Lisbon bisected by a busy thoroughfare. However, this same spot in the Portuguese capital once resonated to the sound of Grand Prix weaponry, the street circuit having played host to a round of the Formula 1 World Championship in 1959. It is also the venue at which this ‘flat floor’ roadster once vanquished all-comers in the early 1960s. More than once, in fact. This old warhorse saw action in everything from rallies to the Angolan Grand Prix, and is still being raced in anger. Its appearance here is fleeting before it returns to its latter-day home in London.