Johnny Dumfries, F1 driver

He faced a near impossible task alongside the Brazilian, and after that difficult year, he never had another shot at Grand Prix racing.
In fact, he was a much more accomplished driver than the bare 1986 statistics suggested, as he had already shown in his F3 days, and would subsequently demonstrate in sportscar racing.
In some ways Dumfries was a throwback to an earlier era, following in the ...

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Johnny Dumfries had impeccable credentials when he was signed up to be Ayrton Senna?s team-mate at Lotus for 1986. He was a British Formula 3 Champion, and a dominant one at that. He?d been test driver for Ferrari. And he?d raced in Formula 3000. That wasn?t the CV of a driver who was going to jump into a grand prix-winning car and end up with just three championship points to his name at ...

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Officially named John Crichton-Stuart, but known to friends as Johnny Bute, he took on the surname he became known by to race fans worldwide in order to keep his background as low profile as possible.
A statement from his family said that he was "devoted husband, father, brother, uncle, son and grandfather and loved by all.
"The indomitable spirit and energy which Johnny brought to his life ...

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