Happy birthday to the talented and versatile James Weaver. Today's Great Read sees him looking back with friend Andy Wallace. Both had F1 ambitions before finding a firmer footing in sports cars, where they collected many an endurance success – along with a rich fund of anecdotes
Being a racing driver is, essentially, a selfish activity. Notwithstanding all that Jacky Ickx had to say on these pages last month, and however much the man in the cockpit may acknowledge his debt to his team and even to his team-mate, he is quite understandably out for himself.
That, at least, is how it usually is in single-seaters, all the way up to Formula 1. In long-distance sports car racing, however, things are different. The very nature of the task in hand, grinding through long hours with a car that may be far past its best, sharing your seat and your chances with a co-driver – or in the longer races these days, two or even three co-drivers – means you really have to work together.
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