Vic didn’t come from a motorsport background. He was born and raised in London where his parents ran a modest working men’s cafe. As a youngster he had very little money so he wasn’t able to enter motorsport until he was 26, and then as a rally navigator because he couldn’t afford a car of his own.
But once he got behind the steering wheel, he was a demon and proved to be an incredibly versatile driver. He was one of a rare