Happy birthday to JJ Lehto, born on this day in 1966. Having kept a low profile since a tragic accident in 2010, the double Le Mans winner looks back on his career in today's Great Read - and explains why he might drive again
JJ Lehto is sitting across the table from me, in the elegant surroundings of Fawsley Hall Hotel near Silverstone, piercing blue eyes growing wider by the moment as he describes his afternoon. And for good reason: today he has done something he has not done in nine years. He has climbed aboard a slicks-and-wings racing car and driven it around a circuit as fast as he possibly can.
"It was so strange. I was really nervous. I can remember putting on the overalls, putting on the boots, tying each shoelace. It felt so alien. There was no reason I shouldn't still be quick but, well, you never know, do you?"
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