54 year old Alec Issigonis brought out his old cloth helmet and demonstrated the Lightweight in a historic display at the 1960 British Grand Prix at Silverstone ( Photo Gauld)
Story and photos by Graham Gauld and Jonathan Sharp
‘Wunderkind’ Adrian Newey and his first production hypercar, the Aston Martin-RB001, are making headlines. But Newey is following in the footsteps of another great designer, Gordon Murray, who set the modern pattern, so to speak, with the original McLaren road car.
But long before them was another wunderkind. Before he became famous as the designer of the ubiquitous BMC Minis, their equally ground breaking designer Alec Issigonis built his own advanced race car, the Lightweight Special.