ALL-NIGHTERS. They’re inevitably expected when you work on customers’ race cars, and they’re often unavoidable when stuff goes wrong before or during a competition event.
The last one that involved me and my wife Jan happened at the Pukekohe Park Raceway circuit on the North Island of New Zealand, when the historic Brabham race car broke a cam follower, dropped a valve and mangled a Cosworth piston. It wasn’t a quick fix, and we were expected to line up the next day for racing,
