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    Phil Walters, aka ‘Ted Tappett’

    Oct 27, 2021 3 minutes
    WORDS DELWYN MALLETT

    ALTHOUGH HE RACED at Le Mans five times in the 1950s and won Sebring twice – once co-driving with Mike Hawthorn – and was just a week from a drive for Ferrari, if you are reading this on the European side of The Pond, Phil Walters might just be the best racing driver you’ve never heard of.

    Walters was born in New York City in 1916 but spent much of his childhood in China, where his father was

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