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Hi, I'm Tony Brooks and you're listening to me on Beyond the Grid.

Hello all, Tom Clarkson here, welcoming you along to another episode of Beyond the Grid,

presented by Bose QuietComp for 352 wireless headphones.

Now back in April in China, Formula One celebrated the 1000th round of the world championship.

And for this week's episode, I'm talking to a man who raced in the very first decade.

Allow me to set the scene, this was the 1950s, a time when Grand Prix cars had engines in the front and no seatbelts.

Yet they could still be raced at more than 250 kilometres an hour.

Races were long, 200 kilometres longer than today, and the tracks were brutal.

It was the deadliest era in the history of the sport and many great drivers lost their lives.

And it was into this environment alongside the likes of Sterling Moss and the great Juan Manuel Fangio

that this week's guests arrived in 1956 from rather unbelievably,

the considerably more sedate world of dentistry.

He'd go on to compete in 38 World Championship races, winning six times,

giving him a better straight rate than many drivers more well known,

including Yoccan Rint, John Cirti's and Nino Farina.

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