Dr. Annie Gray

He'd been making a few hand signals about getting the race stopped, or we interpreted as getting the race stopped because we didn't have radios in those days.

But the officials, Clark and of course, let the race go full distance.

And every lap that goes by, they seem to take longer and longer each lap.

And the last lap in particular, it always feels like it's twice as many minutes as it would be early on in the race.

It was pretty clear that he was going to be a world champion.

And Team Lotus was desperate for him to do that in one of our cars.

He played a big part in the development of the cars.

The feedback we got from him was incredible.

He was extremely accurate.

He was single-mindedly going to be the world champion, and he certainly had the raw talent.

And then, of course, he gets everybody on site to make that happen.

The side of his face was collapsed and we weren't really sure whether he was going to recover from that.

There was definitely some concern, but by the time we were ready to drive, he'd pretty much recovered.

He was interested in everything that was going on.

He was interested in talking to his race mechanics.

He was interested in talking to the fabricators, the composite guys.

He was interested in talking to the guy who kept the place clean.

If you have a Formula One driver who takes an interest in you, you're far more likely to take a bigger interest in him than somebody who...

turns up at 9.30 in the morning, gets in the car, finishes at 2 o'clock and by half past 2 he's gone without a bye or leave.

If you have drivers like that, you're far less likely as a mechanic or as a fabricator or engineer to be prepared to go the extra mile, to be prepared to work all night.