Buckingham first day cover with the genuine hand signed signature of Tony Brooks and Michael Turner. This cover celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Tony Brooks winning the Syracuse Grand Prix in 1955.

Postmarked:- Tony Brooks 1955 Syracuse Grand Prix winner, Daventry, Northants, 23 Oct 2005. Inside is a pictorial of a speedometer in a car.

Daventry is where Connaught the manufacturer of the famous car was based.

Cover has a nice coloured picture of Tony Brooks in his car winning the Grand Prix in 1955.

The reverse of the cover has a small gold label which states:- no more than 200 Buckingham, motor racing covers will be signed by both Tony Brooks (one of Britain’s greatest racing drivers) and artist Michael Turner (whose painting is featured on the cover).

This cover is number 4 of 200.

Charles Anthony Standish Brooks (born 1932) is a British former racing driver from England also known as the ‘racing dentist’. He participated in 39 Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, debuting on 14 July 1956, achieving six wins, 10 podium finishes and 75 career points. He was third in the World Drivers’ Championship In 1958 and second in 1959. He also scored the first win by a British driver in a British car in a Grand Prix since 1923, in 1955 driving a Connaught at Syracuse in a non-world Championship race.

Information Sheet about him enclosed.

Also signed by Michael Turner (born 1934). He is a British illustrator who specialises in motoring and aviation paintings. He is regarded as one of the early examples of such type and he’s one of the most highly regarded of all. He counts racing drivers, teams, sponsors, pilots, motor and aircraft manufacturers, RAF and Army messes, museums and private collections as his clients lists and has hosted a number of solo shows all over the world, plus other specialist shows

information sheet about him enclosed as well.

The reverse of the cover has information about Tony Brooks and also about the Grand Prix which he won.

Tony Brooks Signed 23.10.2005 50th Anniversary Syracuse Grand Prix FDC.

Sorry listings is for 30 days only.