Forty-one years ago, Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, the 3rd Baron Hesketh and thus not short of a bob or two, built his first Formula 1 car, opened the throttle and gleefully tweaked the nose of the ...

Allow me to elaborate... Back in the crazy 1970's an eccentric but wealthy British Lord - his family name was Hesketh - decided to go motor racing. All in the name of fun. He bought a couple of ...

KPMG said the sale ended the day-to-day running of Towcester Racecourse Company by Lord Hesketh. It was revealed in Tuesday's Racing Post that trusts linked to Hesketh had been in contact with the ...