My association with Team Lotus covered the period from October 1975 until May 1984. After the second season, and particularly...
This was going to be an important year for me. My win at Oulton Park, in Richard Attwood’s Cooper, had...
Jim Crawford would have turned 70 this year. After a brief stint in Formula One with Lotus he rebuilt his career in America during the 1980s. Following a devastating crash at Indianapolis, Jim made a fairytale comeback. He died aged just 54, but the good natured and courageous Scotsman is...
Our Pepsi Challenger Eagle from 1981 was sort of unique. It didn’t owe anything to Europe, it was developed right...
Growing up as young lad near the metropolitan borough of Wolverhampton, a city in the West Midlands of England, I...
When the sports car scene started to heat up again in ’65-’66, I went to work for Motorsport Design in Connecticut, and we built a McLaren M6A for John Cannon. After that I was hooked on the Can-Am so I moved back to California, when I became Peter Revson’s mechanic...
My racing started during the spring of 1962 at the Goodwood racing circuit, I was racing a Lotus Elite. I...
Frank Falkner got me into racing way back when, he was my mentor who lived in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, and was the father of my school friend. So, I think I knew Frank from when I was around 10 years old. To give him his proper title, it’s...
My fourth win at Indy was the best for a lot of reasons. The first will always have its place...
Today, I believe, drivers are arriving in Formula One far too early in their racing career. The top echelon of...
I was approached by Theodore after the ’82 British Grand Prix. I’d begun the season not even knowing if I was going to make it to F3, and here I was being offered an F1 drive—for three years, starting the next weekend. It sounds good on paper doesn’t it? But...
I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy winner at the Brickyard, in...
George Lister & Son was a very old engineering company in my hometown of Cambridge, starting in 1895. I joined...
I defected to Ford racing with Alan Mann, driving Lotus Cortinas, Mustangs and Falcons. In formula racing, I was driving for Ken Tyrrell. Ken expected feedback from his drivers during testing, qualifying and races. Without this feedback, it was impossible to set up or improve the handling and efficiency of...
The 1970 World Cup Rally (WCR) has gone down in history as the longest and toughest rally ever. Criss-crossing Europe...
Like many motor racing fans, my original dream of becoming a World Champion racing driver started when I was a...
The possibility of working with Ferrari surfaced in mid-1996. Michael told me at the end of 1995 that he was leaving Benetton to join Ferrari. I was aggrieved about this, more with the team than Michael. He had a problem with Benetton over money and it was not handled properly—he...
In modern Formula One terms, the young driver Max Verstappen is creating a storm in the motor racing press due...
I could talk about David Purley, or Dave as I’ve always known him, all day long, but for the sake...
I grew up on a farm in Northern Ireland, far removed from motor sport, and my parents strongly disapproved of my even being interested in the sport. As my mother one day said to me, “It’s not as if you’ll ever take part.” How wrong she was! From the glamor...
One of the highlights of my many years of racing has to do with the 1966 Trans-Am Mustang that Jerry...
Many might find it unusual that the 58-year old son of legendary racecar driver Dave MacDonald had never driven a...
It started with a phone call from the photographer/journalist Bernard Cahier. He said, “Carl Haas has a problem. Brian Redman flipped his car at the Mont Tremblant Can-Am. Are you interested in driving for Lola Cars in the States?” I talked to Carl Haas the next morning and he said...
At the end of the 1972 season, I left BRM to join Don Nichols and his Shadow race team, my...
As a result of my 1967 win in the Kyalami Nine Hours, in South Africa with Jacky Ickx in the...
I’d raced the Cosworth-powered Ensign N174 at the 1974 USGP at Watkins Glen, it was my fourth time in the car and fifth Grand Prix I’d entered that season—I’d driven a March 731 at the British GP at Brands Hatch—entered by Dempster International Racing Team—but this was the first race...
My very first experiences in a racing car were in a Lotus Seven. In fact, prior to purchasing the Lotus...
The first time I recall sitting in a racing car was as a child at the BRM works at Bourne,...
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....
