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John Foulston
27/6/1947 - 29/9/1987
A keen amateur driver in sports cars and historics, John Foulston at one time owned Brands Hatch and a number of other UK circuits. Killed at Silverstone while testing a McLaren M15S Indycar.
John Foulston died 34 years ago, he was 40 , He would have been 74.
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John Foulston made his money in computers. He sold his company Atlantic Computers and in 1986 he bought Brands Hatch, Oulton Park and Snetterton circuits and established a new company called Brands Hatch Leisure Group. The following year he added Cadwell Park. He was a keen amateur driver in the Thundersport with a Lola T530 Can-Am and historic racing with a variety of machines, his wife Mary briefly raced as well.
On 29 September 1987, he crashed while testing his 1970 Indycar McLaren M15S-Offenhauser for the historic race scheduled for 4th October.
The car's throttle was jammed open when a piece of internal manifold that had been left in place from a previous modification, broke off under vibration. The car buried itself in the outside bank at Club corner. In those days there were only a few rows of catch fencing before you hit the railway sleepers. Foulston died at the scene.
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Lloyd Axel 1905 - 1971 -
Bill Spear 1916 - 1979 -
Bobby Myers 1927 - 1957 -
Chris Irwin 1942 -
Nico Rosberg 1985
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David Hobbs 1939
A likable versatile driver who could turn his hand to anything from Formula 1 to sports cars and from touring cars to Indycars. -
Richard Attwood 1940
Richard Attwood was a good F2 and sportscar driver who achieved one podium and scored a total of 11 championship points in Formula One. In 1970 he won the Le Mans 24-hour race in a Porsche 917 with Hans Herrmann. -
Alan Rees 1938
Alan Rees was a useful Formula Junior driver winning the British title in 1961. He started in three Grands Prix, two in a Winkelmann F2 car and a single outing in a rather tired works Cooper at the 1967 British GP. Later he was one of the founders of March Engineering and was also involved with the Shadow and Arrows teams. -
Robin Widdows 1942
An Olympic-standard bobsleigher (1964 and 1968). He raced mainly in F3 and F2 and made one F1 appearance in a Cooper et the British Grand Prix in 1968
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Richard Robarts 1944
Richard Robarts participated in 4 grands prix. After paying for an F1 drive with Brabham in 1974, Robarts lost it after three races to the better-funded Rikky von Opel. Robarts later raced in Formula 2.