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A bit of a late addition to the thread, but I've just finished Eoin Young's book "the amazing summer of 55" - it's a good read.
He devotes a whole chapter to the Syracuse GP, including the saga of how the whole team got there with drama.Apparently after the race the organisers were so baffled as to how Tony had done it that they stripped his engine for measurement.
Now I don't want to sound rude to Messrs. Clarke and Oliver but that old nail was at the end of its life. What was in effect a Lea-Francis sports car motor couldn't have been tuned any further - if they had bored it out the liners could have been used as sunglasses.
A brilliant drive from an unassuming man who probably didn't know what all the fuss was about.
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