A few weeks before the start of this 2022 racing season, it seemed unlikely that Bert Taylor would be involved.
The former long-time team boss of BTC Racing in the British Touring Car Championship had a severe double blow in early 2021. “I’d had 23 or 24 days of Covid and I got over it and then six days later I had a stroke,” Taylor tells Motorsport News. “So of course it was like ‘will I ever recover from it?’
“I didn’t really know how life was going to be and my wife didn’t really want me to do it again because of what I’d already been through.
“But I thought if we don’t do something about it then we won’t be racing, and then Ben [his son and engineer] would lose his job and then Chris [Smiley] had lost his drives and I thought hold on a
