The Independent - London, May 10th, 1997
Everyone needs heroes. And because racing drivers risk their lives, are youthful, and often good-looking (the main prerequisites for idolisation by the young), they are often venerated. My six-year-old son, for instance, adores Damon Hill, as do many of his school chums.
But for me the real racing heroes existed many decades earlier. None more so than the charming, handsome, Rugby-then-Cambridge-educated Dick Seaman, the greatest English racing star of the Thirties. I certainly didn't idolise Seaman as a youngster: he'd been dead 20 years when I was born. In fact, I knew little about him unti...
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