{"id":460151,"date":"2004-04-01T03:04:15","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T11:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=102390"},"modified":"2024-09-06T23:23:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T23:23:26","slug":"brm-chairman-louis-stanley-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/brm-chairman-louis-stanley-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"BRM\u2008Chairman Louis Stanley Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 16, writer, former BRM chairman and Formula One safety advocate Louis Stanley passed away at the age of 92. Stanley came to Formula One through his wife, Jean Stanley, who was the sister of Lord Alfred Owen of the Owen Organization\u2014owners of the BRM Formula One team. When Lord Owen passed away, Louis and Jean took over the running of the team, and became controversial figures in F1 over a long period of time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102392\" style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/n4-200404-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-102392 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/n4-200404-p1.jpg\" alt=\"Louis and Jean Stanley at a recent BRM reunion in Bourn, England. \" width=\"702\" height=\"846\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis and Jean Stanley at a recent BRM reunion in Bourn, England.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stanley was essentially a raconteur\u2014his list of racing accomplishments spanning everything from becoming chairman of BRM to writing many motor racing and non-racing books. Stanley became a kind of father figure to the Grand Prix scene through the 1960s, and was instrumental in establishing the Grand Prix Medical Service, which provided consistent medical care to F1 drivers, where previously there was none.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stanley was an Englishman of the \u201cold school,\u201d which often meant that his detractors accused him of being selfserving. He had the habit of playing a strong, hands-on role in the BRM team, which drove other team members to distraction, but he cared about his drivers, and when there was a serious accident in those days, it was always \u201cBig Loy\u201d who would be there to deal with the terrible tasks of looking after wives and family, and getting drivers to the hospital. When BRM\u2019s fortunes declined in the early 1970s\u2014even after Stanley\u2019s attempts to get virtually anyone to become a paying BRM driver\u2014Louis and Jean were seen less around racing, though they were welcomed back warmly at Bourn, Lincolnshire, England for a recent BRM reunion. Always active, even in recent months, Louis Stanley had another motor racing book in the works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Submitted by Ed McDonough<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 16, writer, former BRM chairman and Formula One safety advocate Louis Stanley passed away at the age of 92. Stanley came to Formula One through his wife, Jean Stanley, who was the sister of Lord Alfred Owen of the Owen Organization\u2014owners of the BRM Formula One team. When Lord Owen passed away, Louis and Jean took over the running of the team, and became controversial figures in F1 over a long period of time. 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