“See you at tea-time,” quipped Nigel Greensall to his driving partner John Spiers as they finished lunch one Sunday at Silverstone last month. The duo were about to embark on an epic quadruple stint for the afternoon: four consecutive two-driver races, four cars from three decades, run by three different teams. Spiers started each, they were ships passing at the pitstops, then Greensall finished them.
When they did properly meet again it was indeed tea-time, and on the podium’s top step – which Greensall had already occupied alone three times. Yes, they’d won all four races. Spiers only got to experience the celebration for that last one because, for the others, he’d been busy strapping himself in the next car to start another race.
