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Richard pictured with a Wiessman MF5 and a white Lamborghini LP74


I think drivers should be taught to experience a car losing its grip, and how to correct it. If you learn stuff like that, you don’t have to process it when it happens for real! You’ll know to take your foot off the brake if it’s locked up. And you’ll know not to do all those sorts of counterintuitive things because you’ve trained yourself and it’s automatic. That’s one of the best lessons young drivers could learn now, but it’s not yet come to the fore.


Did your accident change you? It’s one of life’s experiences, all experiences change you! I’m 41, so having kids changed me. I’m sure getting married changed me... things change you in lots of ways. It’s part of my life and I am the sum of my life, aren’t I? It had an effect on my wife and daughters and, I’m sure, my further extended family. But how it’s changed all of us, I don’t know. It’s the tapestry of your own life.


Did it put you off getting behind the wheel again? Of course it did! I went through a stage and was really struggling. It was post-crash, and I knew I’d learned in the most, graphic, miserable


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