“What was amazing was how great the car was, I don’t know how to describe it, so comfortable so, it just eggs you on and it took no time at all, and by the time I was at the bottom of the hill having rolled down from the assembly area, it was fantastic. All the fun stupid little things like you have a turning point where you roll down the hill, you have to turn around 180 degrees to line up for the start, and just doing the little donut there and little things like that, was just such fun to head it off the line.
“Up the hill was just incredible until I got about half-way up the accelerator jammed open on the engine and it went absolutely flat out, and thank god I was going in a straight line, I had just enough time to catch it, dip the clutch and turn the engine off, before we headed into the sharp left after the so unfortunately I had to turn off early, I didn’t want to buzz the engine or anything with it jammed open.
Jackie Oliver had warned me about it, he said it had happened to him, at the end of his previous run so luckily I was a little bit prepared for it although I’d be lying if I said it didn’t come as a slight surprise!”
In part two Sam talks about driving
Ayrton Senna's first Grand Prix winning race car.
