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Jackie Oliver on going from F1 driver to F1 team boss with Arrows

Jackie Oliver on going from F1 driver to F1 team boss with Arrows

F1 Beyond The Grid vor 4 Jahren

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This week’s guest is that rarest of creatures: a man who was both
a Formula One driver and a team owner. Jackie Oliver’s F1 journey
started in the worst possible circumstances when he had the
unenviable task of replacing Jim Clark at Lotus in 1968, after
the Scotsman had been killed at Hockenheim. He went on to start
50 GPs for Lotus, BRM, McLaren and Shadow, scoring two podiums,
before hanging up his helmet to start his own team: Arrows. He
gives a fascinating insight into life as a driver in the 60s,
what he learnt from Colin Chapman that he would apply to life as
a team boss, the incredible dramas that beset Arrows in the early
days, and that ‘almost victory’ with Damon Hill in 1997…

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