Readers’ Writes
Oil power
Lockdown has brought out old magazines for rereading and in the July 2019 issue (No. 343) Michael Clark comments on the 100 years of Castrol in NZ.
In 1977 I was working at Wolf Racing when the enclosed photo of me topping up the oil in WR1 was taken at the British Grand Prix. After this photo appeared in a magazine, Peter Warr called me into his office and asked why I was using a Texaco pourer because, as from the Spanish GP, Castrol had come on board as a sponsor! I replied that it was the only one we had and that Castrol hadn’t supplied any. A call to Castrol HQ at Pangbourne, about 20 minutes up the Thames, soon sorted that problem out.
However, that was a minor part of
