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> A second RA302 was built, with slight modifications, earmarked for Surtees to drive at the 1968 Italian Grand Prix, but he again refused to drive it. They bu
by omnicognate 4y ago
> A second RA302 was built, with slight modifications, earmarked for Surtees to drive at the 1968 Italian Grand Prix, but he again refused to drive it.
They built a car so flammable their driver refused to drive it. The driver they used in his place was then incinerated on the 2nd lap. So they built another equally flammable car and asked the first driver if maybe he'd now be up for driving it?
I'd love to have heard that conversation.
- jacquesm 4y agoI'm guessing that it was short and contained a couple of choice expletives. What on earth were they thinking.