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But my favourite John Miles story, at least of those I witnessed, came in around 1992. The Autocar road test team were in a meeting room at Lotus, being taught by John the Lotus way to drive and assess cars. The telephone rings. John scowls and ignores it. After a while it stops ringing and then almost immediately starts again. John grabs the receiver and growls ‘what?’ into the mouthpiece. The rest of his side of the conversation went something like this.
‘No I can’t, I’m busy.’
‘Well where is he?’
‘It’ll have to wait.’
‘I told you I’m busy.’
‘Oh bloody hell. Alright I’m on my way.’
He slams down the receiver, turns to us and says, ‘Look, I’m sorry. I have to go and do something. Apparently there’s no one else in this entire organisation who can do it. I’ll be back in an hour.’ Whereupon he turns and marches out of the room.
About 20 minutes later we hear the searing scream of a modern Formula 1 car howling around the Hethel track. We find out from one of his colleagues that Mika Hakkinen’s plane had been delayed, so it is John out there shaking down Lotus’ very latest F1 machine. An hour later he is back in the classroom, apologises once more, picks up where he left off and never mentions it again.
One year photographer Geoff Goddard was leaving the Nurburgring before the race had ended in order to catch a flight home from Brussels, process his films early and deliver them promptly to the magazine customer in time for press deadline.
In the car park he found Jacky Ickx whose race entry had retired and he asked him if he knew a speedy route back into Belgium and on to Brussels. Jacky said "Sure - just follow me"...
Now Geoff was a rapid, enterprising and fearless road driver in his own right. But he confessed later that he sweated absolute buckets just to keep Ickx in sight as they ripped along, cross-country "...on all kinds of little lanes I'd never even have imagined using"...including a long stretch, I believe, across a NATO artillery range. Jacky even stopped a couple of times to enable his pursuer to catch up.
For the record: the 498 races so far include all 36 races of the ITC from 1995 and 1996, the years in which the DTM was sanctioned by motorsport’s global governing body FIA under the ‘International Touring Car Series’ and ‘International Touring Car Championship’ banner, the 10 races of the ITR Gold Cup (1991, 1993, 1994), the DTM invitation race in Shanghai in 2004 as well as the three races in Salzburg (1988) and Berlin (1995) that were started, but remained without classification after being halted. The races at the Lausitzring in 2000 that were eventually cancelled due to heavy rain, on the other hand, haven’t been counted, and neither have the DTM events at Munich’s Olympic stadium (2011, 2012).
, Сайнс (10), Джиовинацци (11), Риккиардо (12), Квят (14). Это вторая группа первой волны пит-стопов. Не заехали: Магнуссен (9), Стролл (13), Норрис (15), Расселл (16) и Кубица (17) плюс Феттель с Албоном. Видимо, это будет третья группа (кроме Феттеля и Албона) первой волны пит-стопов.. В середине круга "Матч!" ушёл на рекламу. В конце круга заехал в боксы Магнуссен (9), последний из третьей группы первой волны пит-стопов, которая растянулась на 3 круга. , Гасли (9), Грожан (10)., Грожан (10), Кубица (13).
