Alain de Cadenet

[1][7] He made his reputation building and driving his own sports prototypes, taking on works teams and occasionally beating them.

[1] A year later, he persuaded Duckhams Oil to sponsor a car he commissioned Gordon Murray to design for the Le Mans race.

[8] In 1980, with co-driver Desiré Wilson, he won two rounds of the World Sportscar Championship – the Monza 1000 kilometers and Silverstone six hour events.

This was a major achievement in an era of increasing professionalism, when it was very difficult for privateers to defeat larger, better-funded teams that had factory support.

[12] In 2012, de Cadenet hosted Renaissance Man for the Velocity Channel (now called the Motor Trend network), covering cars, motorcycles, the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine and racing at Monaco.

He was buried at the Putney Vale Cemetery; his grave is alongside pre-war racing driver Richard Seaman.