Juan Manuel Fangio personally dedicated this photo of himself during the 1952 Albi GP, where he started from pole position and led the first 15 laps, in his BMR P151, but then retired when the engine failed.
Photo: ML Rosenthal
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the team during the beginning, middle and end of the marque’s history in Grand Prix motor racing. The first of these interviews is with Richard “Dick” Salmon, now in his 92nd year, who started with the team in the early 1950s and stayed for 17 years. His last race with the team coincided with the debut of a young Scot named Jackie Stewart, who had an exemplary debut finishing 6th in the 1965 South African GP. Mike Jiggle, VR’s European Editor, sat down with Salmon to reminisce on those early and sometimes frustrating days of a very British motor racing team.
Richard “Dick” Salmon Photo: Kary Jiggle
Was it inevitable that you ended up at BRM, given you were a young mechanic from the Bourne area of Lincolnshire?
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