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Mike Spence: A man on the brink of greatness
Phillip van Osten
30/12/2025 at 12:3030/12/2025 at 11:05 40 SHARES Share on.. Share on.. Share on.. Mike Spence was born on this day in 1936, in Croyden, Surrey. "Mike was almost too nice to be a racing driver," once said Sir Jackie Stewart, the Briton's team leader at BRM in 1967. "He was very well mannered and very shy, almost introverted. The kind of person you would have expected to have had Jim Clark as a team mate which, of course, he did." After his formative years in F1, Spence developed into a smooth and consistent performer, first with Lotus and then with BRM, and a driver greatly appreciated by the engineers. After Jim Clark's tragic death in the spring of...
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