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In "When the Germans came to Donington", Rodney Walkerley describes the impression the German cars made on British journalists who had not yet witnessed them, being confident in the skills and machinery of British racers. Away beyond the woods we heard the approaching scream of a well-tuned E.R.A. and down the winding slope towards us came Raymond Mays. He changed down, braked, skirted round the Hairpin and was gone. "There's the winner," remarked one of my friends. "Knows this course backwards." Half a minute later came the deeper note of a 2.9-litre Maserati, and "B. Bira" (Prince Birabongse of Siam, Mays’ nearest rival and a new star in the racing firmament) shot past us, cornering with that precision which marked him as the master he was. "Or him," said another. We waited again. Then they came. Far away in the distance we heard an angry, deep-throated roaring – as someone once remarked, like hungry lions impatient for the arena. A few moments later, Manfred von Brauchitsch, red helmeted, brought a great, silver projectile snaking down the hill, and close behind, his teammate Rudolf Caracciola, then at the height of his great career. The two cars took the hairpin, von Brauchitsch almost sideways, and rocketed away out of sight with long plumes of rubber smoke trailing from their huge rear tyres, in a deafening crash of sound. The startled Pressmen gazed at each other, awe-struck. "Strewth," gasped one of them, "so that's what they're like!" That was what they were like.

Il mistero del Nuffield Trophy del 1938. Ed ora quello che per me è un vero mistero. Qualcuno di voi conosce la classifica del Nuffield Trophy disputato il 9 luglio 1938 sul circuito di Donington Park e vinto dall’impareggiabile "B. Bira" (ERA R1C). Sfortunatamente io non sono riuscito a trovarne traccia….. Aiutatemi……

Il Gunnar Nilsson Memorial Trophy è stata una manifestazione automobilistica che si tenne domenica 3 giugno 1979 al Donington Park, nel Regno Unito. Essa fu caratterizzata da diverse gare, riservata ciascuna a una diversa categoria di vetture da corsa. La competizione tra le vetture di Formula 1 non fu un classico gran premio ma una gara a cronometro, in cui avrebbe vinto il pilota che avesse ottenuto il tempo sul giro più rapido e, ovviamente, non fu valida quale prova del campionato mondiale di Formula 1. La prova tra queste vetture venne vinta dal pilota australiano Alan Jones su Williams-Ford Cosworth. Precedette il britannico James Hunt su Wolf-Ford Cosworth e lo statunitense Mario Andretti su Lotus-Ford Cosworth.