Bill Mcgovern

CHAMPION 1970, 1971, 1972

With the Imp you’d corner with the wheel up in the air and you weren’t aware. Then there was a strange feeling and I thought if I could eradicate that I’d be quicker, but it was the front wheel landing again!

The team was underfunded and the car never finished in the early days. We led lots. I did have a reputation for having a go, which I enjoyed.

They call me controversial, but I don’t know why! Once at Silverstone I was beating the Fraser Imps and was dicing with Anita Taylor’s Ford Anglia. Her team-mate John Fitzpatrick dropped back to help and drove me off the road. He admonished me, but now I was in his slipstream. I pulled out and overtook him at Copse lap after lap. Eventually he’d had enough and we went off, both into the bank. That sort of thing happened all the time.