Jonathan Palmer: doctor, driver, deal-maker
F1: Beyond The Grid
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The Decision to Go Formula 3
I took a year off and I had this sponsor of my called West Surrey Engineering, a little engineering company in Ashford, Surrey. So I persuaded him to go and buy the project for championship winning Formula 3 car that Dick Benets had run and won the championship with Stefan Janssen on route RT3. He said, okay, we'll buy the car. And I said, well, we need a test. We went down to Goodwood over the handover. It was running it. The unfortunate thing is, as ever, we did the first race. But we still only had one engine. We didn't have a spare nosecoat. There was no point in her trying
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