The courageous David Purley GM was born on this day in 1945. His LEC Formula 1 team epitomised the cliche of British pluck, yet Purley's Bognor Regis-based outfit showed unlikely promise – almost immediately, as Nick Phillips recalls in today's Great Read
How do you put together a new Formula One car in Bognor Regis, with an assembly team switched from making refrigerators, and expect anything but trouble? Well, the Lec CRP1 was the result of just such a chain of events and it led its first GP!
To a race fan in the 1970s, the name Lec was not only a very well-known fridge brand, but was also synonymous with one of Britain's true motorsport heroes, David Purley, whose family ran the company. The Lec F1 car was his most ambitious project, and it effectively finished his racing career...
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