Luigi Villoresi winning the British Grand Prix Elaine Page Throwing hot pennies to children

Throwing hot pennies to children at Honiton Fair

29th September 1983

and exiled again to St Helena

Taken from the original by Van Dyke in the Bodleian Gallery

Another man is holding a sheet inscribed Resolution of the London Correspond Society

Luigi Villoresi winning the British Grand Prix Elaine Page Throwing hot pennies to childrenLuigi Villoresi winning the British Grand Prix, Silverstone, October 1948. Driving a Maserati 4CLT 48. Villoresi had been racing since the early 1930s. As a member of the Maserati team he twice won the Italian championship. In 1948 he switched to Ferrari, and then then joined Lancia in the early 1950s .