A genial, kind, patient and honest man, Jackson was nominally Renault UK’s press and PR chief, but he was actually the company’s de facto head of motorsport – in the 1990s, that encompassed title-winning glory in the British Touring Car (Alain Menu in 1997) and British Rally (Martin Rowe in 1998 and Tapio Laukkanen in 1999) championships, race wins in British Formula 3 (including Jenson Button in 1999), as well as Renault UK’s own twin series.
“Tim’s enthusiasm drove Renault UK’s whole motorsport programme,” says BTCC boss and former chairman of UK motorsport’s governing body Alan Gow. “Obviously above him the decisions were made about how much they were going to spend, but without his enthusiasm I don’t think they’d have agreed to do those programmes. He was a great driver of all of them.”
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