Trevor Taylor’s life as a racing driver began on a windswept airfield at Gamston, Nottinghamshire, England. His father held a time trial between him and his older brother, Mike. The track was a straight, a hairpin bend and back to the start. Trevor, driving the X100 they had just built, won by about a second, qualifying himself as driver and his brother Mike as mechanic. There was never any quarrel or conversation between the boys about a rematch—that was that.
His first proper race was at Aintree, in 1955, at a BARC-organized event where he started from the fourth row of the grid. As the cars entered the first corner, Trevor pressed the horn as hard as he could, hoping some of the cars would simply move out of his way—it worked! They moved, but he overcooked the corner and was left in their wake.
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