Rosemary Smith at Silverstone in a Hillman Imp, July 1967 - Mike McLaren/Central press/Hulton Archive/Getty Rosemary Smith, who has died aged 86, was one of Ireland’s best-known motor-sport drivers of ...

It turns out there is an Irish word for walking a mile up a hilly road before standing in marshy ground for an hour in the rain. According to a fellow spectator, we’re enjoying the craic—­pronounced ...