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Gary Watkins

Spirit F1 owner and Le Mans-winning Bentley team boss John Wickham dies aged 73

His role with the Spirit team, which brought Honda back into F1 in 1983, and the first of two stints at Bentley as team director of the organisation that triumphed at Le Mans with the Speed 8 LM-GTP coupe were just two chapters of a varied and successful motorsport management career spanning five decades.

Wickham, who was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in 2019, worked all over the world, in a variety of different racing categories and for multiple manufacturers in that time.

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