John Wickham, who co-owned the Spirit F1 team and oversaw Bentley’s 2003 Le Mans 24 Hours victory, has died after a long illness Full story ⬇️
, which was running a Honda-engined turbo car by the end of the season and demanded exclusivity of supply for ’84.
A second stint in F1 followed in 1990 to 1994 when he negotiated the Japanese Footwork organisation’s purchase of Arrows.It wasn’t his last foray in F1: Wickham was parachuted into the fledgling HRT team for a brief stint ahead of its F1 entry in 2011; and then made another return with a short-lived management role at Lotus Renault GP late that year.
Initially an employee Lloyd’s Apex team, he transferred onto the Bentley payroll for the final year of the programme when Tom Kristensen, Rinaldo Capello and Guy Smith led home a 1-2 for the team.
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