Cliff Allison, who was born on this day in 1932, was a prodigious racing talent whose F1 tenure was cruelly halted after a serious crash at Spa-Francorchamps in 1961. In today's Great Read, Mark Hughes looks back on a driver of real ability
It would have been Cliff Allison's 87th birthday today. His sudden passing in 2005, aged 73, made but a ripple – even in the specialist press.
His Formula 1 career – even though it was with Lotus and Ferrari – had been brief, curtailed by injury and his name rarely came up when discussion turned to that generation of British drivers – Hawthorn, Collins, Brooks and, later, Surtees – who shone for Ferrari in the 1950s and '60s. Partly it was the brevity, but it was probably also the persona – that of the cheerful down-to-earth Cumbrian...
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