Three years later the family moved to England, as John's father had been tasked with setting up Paramount Newsreel's London branch.
)[3] Sprinzel finished third overall in the inaugural 1958 British Saloon Car Championship season driving for his own Team Speedwell in an Austin A35.
[4] Navigated by future BMC and Ford Competitions Manager Stuart Turner, he won the British Rally Championship in 1959, driving an Austin-Healey Sprite and an Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI.
[3] In International events during 1960, he won his class in the 12 Hours of Sebring race in Florida and scored 2nd place overall in the RAC Rally of Great Britain and third overall in Belgium's gruelling Liège-Rome-Liège.
He published three volumes of memoirs: 'Sleepless Knights' (1962), 'Spritely Years' (1994 and 2008) and 'Lucky John' (2013), as well as a tuning manual for BMC cars 'Modified Motoring' (1959 and 1961).