Robs Lamplough

“In 1969 I put a GT40 engine into the back of Jim Clark’s Lotus 43 to run in Formula 5000. We went to Oulton Park and got terrible oil surge, which took out the bearings and that ended the race. But the car was quite quick.

“The next race was at Brands Hatch and I was summoned to John Webb’s office, which was in the bar. He said they were really struggling for entries and did I have anything I could bring along? So I took a Lotus 41 F3 car with a 1600cc twin-cam engine for the F5000 races. It wasn’t what F5000 was meant to be!

“The F5000s were fantastic cars and I enjoyed driving them more than anything else. The camaraderie among the drivers was particularly good: people like Mike Hailwood and Ulf Norinder.”