A FORMER RACING DRIVER PAL remarked recently “Many of this new generation of F1 drivers seem to be quite good blokes”. He spoke in wonderment, but the likes of Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, George Russell, Carlos Sainz and Esteban Ocon (amongst others) do indeed seem like –well –“quite good blokes”.
Now on May 3 we sadly lost not just “a quite good bloke” from motor racing history, but one that I and my generation truly admired as being one of the very, very best – the epitome of the old-English schoolboy’s ideal of a sportsman whose enormous
