We had a family caravan by the chicane and would have a picnic and, between the ages of two and 10, I’d watch from there. I remember Jean Behra hitting the brick wall at the chicane and his BRM ending up very U-shaped. That was fairly intense.
There was always a cocktail party in the house on a Saturday night of the Easter Monday meeting. All the drivers were there. My grandfather (Freddie, who originally opened the circuit in 1948) introduced me to them and I’d get all