FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS — AND LISTEN TO YOUR MUM
After ordering our lunch at the Ardmore Airport cafe, I ask Steve if this is an appropriate venue. Was it here that he was first introduced to motor racing? “You’re absolutely right — in fact it was just a bit further along from here where I watched with my dad.”
On discovering it was at the 1957 Grand Prix (GP) that the just-turned-seven-year-old received his introduction to the sport that would consume his life, I say, “Ah, the year Ron Roycroft led for the first 10 or so laps.” To which Steve responds, “My dad was part of Ron’s pit crew.”
Before we start the Steve Horne story we need to introduce his father George. His two great passions of aircraft, he was an Air Force man, and racing cars were passed on to Steve but George also
