{"id":459723,"date":"2002-06-01T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2002-06-01T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=111512"},"modified":"2024-09-06T18:27:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T18:27:02","slug":"birds-and-other-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/birds-and-other-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds…and other Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s nice to be asked back! (Taylor was featured in an interview in VRJ in March 1999). Especially to talk about the old days and the people I found so interesting. I always considered that I was lucky to have been close to some of the real characters of the time \u2013 Jim Clark, of course, and Colin Chapman, and Innes Ireland. I\u2019ve said before that Innes and I almost had it out in the streets of Reims! But Chapman was behind that. I see there\u2019s a new book coming out on Chapman and it\u2019s going to tell some stories people likely haven\u2019t heard before.<\/p>\n

Innes got the boot from Lotus because he was coming up to his third year and Colin didn\u2019t want to pay the additional bonuses, except to Jimmy. So Innes got the push and I was in, but no one ever told me what was going on. I got my 25% of the prize and bonus money the first year and somehow I didn\u2019t get told I was supposed to get 33% the second year. But to tell you the truth, the money didn\u2019t matter very much then. Colin was always going on about how tight things were! I kind of agreed with everything he said to me, from the time I was doing some Formula 2 races in the old Lotus 18 at Crystal Palace, the car with the Colotti \u2018straight-push\u2019 gearbox, which we cleaned up with. Chapman more or less said at that time, \u201cTrevor, you will be in Formula One,\u201d and I believed him, and went along with what he said. That\u2019s really why I went out to Africa for the non-championship races at the end of 1961. I had been doing a lot of other racing\u2026.saloon cars, sports cars\u2026..things the F1 boys don\u2019t know anything about these days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n