Warwick started his profession racing automobiles and vans in a subject subsequent to the household trailer firm, egged on by his uncle Stan, who Warwick describes as ‘an utter nutter’.
However Warwick discovered he had a expertise behind the wheel, profitable the 1971 English Superstox Championship aged 16 earlier than progressing by way of System 3000 and System Three, earlier than getting his break with Toleman in 1981.
He raced in among the glory days of System One – the likes of Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet and a younger Michael Schumacher are amongst these Warwick has shared a grid with.
His finest season was 1984 when he completed seventh within the World Championship with Renault, making the rostrum 4 instances together with second-placed finishes on residence soil at Manufacturers Hatch and on the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder.
“If you’re a racing driver you solely need to win, and as you go up the degrees profitable is much less and fewer as a result of each time you make a step up, there’s people who find themselves pretty much as good if not higher than you,” says Warwick, who’s recalling his profession in his autobiography ‘By no means Look Again’.
“So you have to attempt to discover that edge and discover a approach of profitable. I did not win in System One, as my critics would typically say, however you understand what I can look again very proud and say I had an awesome profession, a tremendous profession.
“It was filled with tragedy, however it was additionally filled with enjoyable. We loved our motor racing, we had enjoyable, I am not so positive as we speak’s racing drivers are having the identical enjoyable as we did again then.”
