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Humorist Peter Ustinov takes a "devastating look at sports car racing.

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While at school, Ustinov considered anglicising his name to "Peter Austin" but was counselled against it by a fellow pupil who said that he should "Drop the 'von' but keep the 'Ustinov'". After training as an actor in his late teens, along with early attempts at playwriting, he made his stage début in 1938 at the Players' Theatre, becoming quickly established He spoke English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Russian fluently, as well as some Turkish and modern Greek.

Recorded for Riverside Records, Ustinov does all the voices and engine noises of this imaginary event set in Gibraltar, with some gloriously politically incorrect national stereotypes that wouldn't seem out of place on today's GP grid. The Grand Prix of Gibraltar" is a great example of his remarkable craft. I actually bought a copy of "Sports Cars in Stereo" (the 1958 Sebring Grand Prix) in the mid-1960's when it was fairly new. Stereo was fairly new. The idea of having these fabulous racing cars screaming across my living room, fascinated me (I was about 9 years ol.

Remastered) Peter Ustinov. The Race: Fanfani Pit Stop, Wildfowl Pit Stop, Orgini Pit Stop, Fanfini Pit Stop, Halfway Report, Russian Observer, Schnorcedes Pit Stop, Pinfall Pit Stop.

The most impressive facet is Ustinov's skill at mimicking the voices and inflections of various nationalities, whether they're American, British, German, French, Italian, or Russian (all of the non-Anglo characters speak in accented English, of course). These are as skilled and comic as the somewhat more celebrated talents in this arena by Peter Sellers, with much of the humor due to Ustinov's timing and nuance rather than the content, as when he portrays the way over-serious Germans or the ridiculously stuffy and upper-crust British official.

A spoof Grand Prix based loosely around the Monaco GP, which Ustinov, a great motor racing fan, occasionally attended, this is the first time it has ever been released on CD. Sir Peter replicates (extraordinarily successfully) assorted engine noises (he had a cold at the time which helped make his Ferrari V12 sound more authentic), marching bands and klaxons. He lampoons the various personalities and nationalities involved in motor racing in 1958 in a wonderfully non-PC manner. The sleeve-note has been written by Nigel Roebuck, probably the greatest authority on Grand Prix racing today, based.

By Peter Ustinov, Bäng Management & Verlags GmbH & Co. KG. 2016, 18 songs.