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A man on the brink of greatness
Mike Spence was born on this day in 1936, in Croyden, Surrey. "Mike was almost too nice to be a racing driver," remembers Jackie Stewart, the Brit's team leader at BRM in 1967. "He was very well mannered and very shy, almost introverted. The kind of person you would have expected to have had Jim Clark as a team mate which, of course, he did." After his formative years in F1, Spence developed into a smooth and consistent performer, first with Lotus and then with BRM, and a driver greatly appreciated by the engineers. After Jim Clark's tragic death in the spring of 1968 in an insignificant F2 race at Hockenheim, Spence accepted Colin Chapman's offer to test and race...
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