It is early 1964 and having recently qualified as a doctor, I had signed up for a short-service commission as medical officer for the Royal Air Force in Changi, Singapore, to start at the beginning of the summer. But there was a problem; I had an obsession for motor racing. As an impoverished student, I had learned the rudiments by racing a variety of Ford Ten specials in UK club racing, but I was driven by the urge to compete…

Goodwin rounds the Gasworks Corner at Monaco where, despite not having the use of his Lola’s clutch, he finished 12th in 1964’s 6th GP Monaco F3.