For a combination of entirely coincidental reasons, the name of John Miles has been popping into my head quite a lot in the last week. It was triggered by the piece I wrote last Friday about the 50th anniversary of the passing of Jochen Rindt and Miles’ comment to Colin Chapman about the wingless Lotus 72 being the ‘most awful racing car’ he’d ever driven. Whether the observation had anything to do with it I don’t know, but John never raced for Lotus in Formula 1 again.
John Miles was an uncompromising Lotus hero – Thank Frankel it’s Friday

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