Jenks: A Passion for Motor Sport

by Stirling Moss

This volume is about one of motor racing's greatest Denis Sargent Jenkinson, known affectionately as "DSJ2 or "Jenks". His famed column in "Motor Sport" was read avidly for the 40 years he was that magazine's continental correspondent. Over the years he also became an integral part of the motor racing scene, being perceived by the drivers and racing hierarchy as "one of us". He had also participated in motor racing at the highest level, first as the athletic passenger of Sidecar World Champion and later as the famed navigator who pointed Stirling Moss to perhaps the greatest of all motor racing triumphs - the record-shattering victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia round Italy sportscar race.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography

192 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1997

About the author

Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE was a British former Formula One racing driver. An inductee into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, he won 212 of the 529 races he entered across several categories of competition and has been described as "the greatest driver never to win the World Championship". In a seven-year span between 1955 and 1961 Moss finished as championship runner-up four times and in third place the other three times.

Reviews

[John Kitzmiller]

Great fun for fans of GP and sports car racing in the 50s and 60s. Up close and personal writing by the man that served as Continental Correspondent for Motor Sport magazine for decades. A collection of 54 of his essays, including the classic "With Moss in the Mille Miglia," and lots of photos. Not a biography but a wonderful profile of a true eccentric. RIP Jenks.

Introduction by Stirling Moss, edited by John Blunsden.

[John]

An excellent book about the motor racing journalist Denis Jenkinson.