With more backing and a couple of lucky breaks, the talents of Chris Craft, born on this day in 1939, surely would have shone at the highest level. Yet no-one can have enjoyed their career more. Today's Great Read hears from the happy go-lucky racer who had more than his share of go - both on and off the track.
Money was so tight that driver Chris Craft and team manager Keith Greene had to take a Page & Moy tour to get to North America for the two end-of-season GPs in 1971. The deal was that Craft would give the punters talks about his career in racing; about what it felt like to drive a Ferrari 512M at Le Mans at 220mph while dicing with Jo Siffert's Porsche 917; about giant-killing drives in Chevron B8s against big-gun GT4Os driven by international stars; about door-handling Broadspeed Escorts against the likes of Frank Gardner.
Page & Moy's guests would definitely have got their money's worth.
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