FAIRYTALE OF NORFOLK
Are you sitting comfortably? Let us begin. This is a festive fairytale of a letter to a motorsport ‘Santa’, where in less than a year the youngster who wrote it was winning a support race at the Gunnar Nilsson Memorial meeting. The main event that day included past and future world champions James Hunt, Mario Andretti, Alan Jones and Nelson Piquet. Also on the bill was Juan Manuel Fangio, who was at that Donington Park meeting to demonstrate the awesome Mercedes W125. Within two years the youngster was team-mate to Fangio’s great friend and rival Stirling Moss.
How and who?
The ambitious young racer that June day in 1979 was Martin Brundle, who had turned 20 just two days before. He was driving in the BMW County Championship, a one-make series for BMW E21 323is all prepared by Tom Walkinshaw Racing,
