Taylor won six of the 1961 Formula Junior season’s first seven races with his Lotus 20, and carried on to win the British National Championship.
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British racer Trevor Taylor is perhaps best known for being the Lotus Formula One teammate to Jim Clark in the early 1960s. However, Taylor earned his spot in Formula One by sharing the 1960 Formula Junior Championship, with Clark, at the wheel of a Lotus 18 [see this month’s Racecar Profile], and winning the 1961 championship in his own right. Recently, Mike Jiggle sat down with Taylor to discuss his meteoric rise up the Formula Junior ranks, and his relationship with Clark and Chapman.
Trevor, you had two very successful seasons in 500-cc racing in 1957, finishing 3rd in the championship, and Champion in 1958. Formula 3, 500-cc racing, however was on the decline. Why was that?
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