At Queen Mary reception Eoin Young and I marvelled at how obsequiously Walker was addressed. There were flowers and notes of welcome from Rancho Mirage over by Palm Springs, invited him for dinner. “Miss Ginger Rogers”, the desk almost curtseyed, told him solemnly, “Left these for you, sir”.
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British Racing Motors never got over the Sunday Pictorial: “FOUR YEARS —18 MEN, £160,000, MUCH OF IT IN HALF-CROWNS, WENT TO BUILD A CAR THAT WOULD NOT START. Jackie Stewart demonstrated the thrilling supercharged sixteen-cylinder masterpiece that jerked only yards off a 1950s Silverstone starting grid. It was ignominy then. Yet three years later, at my first-ever motor race, I saw one win.
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