Peter Gethin, the winner of F1's closest-ever race, was born on this day in 1940. In today's Great Read, he talks to Motor Sport about a rollercoaster career and the characters he worked with along the way
It was during his spell as a McLaren works driver, first with the Church Farm Racing M10A in Formula 5000 and later as a member of the Grand Prix team, that Peter Gethin fell in love with West Sussex, the area in which he now makes his home. "I used to drive down through this area when we went testing at Goodwood and always promised myself that, one day, this is where I would live", he smiles with obvious self-gratification.
And it was to the tiny village of Lodsworth, nestling in the calm of the West Sussex countryside, that we recently journeyed to talk to Gethin about his varied and interesting racing career which finished at the end of the 1977 season, and about his likes and dislikes, his aspirations and disappointments.
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