MEMORIES OF AN F1 LEGEND
As for so many youngsters at the time, my Corgi model of the Lotus 72 was special to me, for more reasons than most:
• A painful first experience, at the launch at Hethel, when I went to help push the car after its test track run and promptly burned myself on the exhaust.
• The excitement of Jochen Rindt appearing into Clearways before Jack Brabham, having passed him on the last lap to win the British Grand Prix. The clear memory of hearing the news of
