Eoin Young

Aug 29, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | Shaun Campbell |Mark Hughes |Paul Fearnley |Eoin Young

James Hunt was the first Grand Prix driver I really disliked. It was, I suppose, a result of me being a member of the establishment, schooled in manners and diplomacy by Bruce McLaren. And if James specialised in anything apart from driving very fast, it was tweaking the nose of the establishment. He flatly refused to conform. He had surfed into Formula 1 on the foaming Hesketh champagne wave. The portly, wealthy young Lord Hesketh had come up through the proper schools, so he knew how to behave.

Jul 2, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | JOhn Watson |John Watson |Eoin Young |Matt Bishop

1978 was heavy going for both James Hunt and McLaren – but at that year's French GP, the British hero delivered a scintillating drive for his final career podium In the Formula 1 World Championship era, in other words 1950 onwards, French Grands Prix have been run at Reims (11 times), Rouen (five times), Clermont-Ferrand (four times), Le Mans Bugatti (once), Paul Ricard (18 times), Dijon (five times), and Magny-Cours (18 times), most of them at this time of year.