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The Derek Bennett Story |
Chevron - The Derek Bennett Story has been reprinted. It costs £29.99 and can be bought online from Chevron Racing. Click on the book cover below to buy a copy. |
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| This is how the sleeve notes described my book. | |
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CHEVRON is the story of Derek Bennett, an ordinary man with an extraordinary talent, who started out mending road cars in a lock-up garage in the back streets of Salford and became one of the world's leading builders of racing cars. A quiet, unassuming and immensely practical man, Derek designed and built racing cars that looked like racing cars were supposed to look and that were almost guaranteed to win races. The success story of the Chevron marque became closely entwined with the success of the drivers who raced the cars - no fewer than six of whom went on to become Formula 1 world champions. Derek was the irrepressible driving force behind the wheel of Chevron Cars and he commanded the undying respect and loyalty of his workforce and drivers. His lack of any formal qualifications made his natural genius all the more impressive and when he combined his intuitive engineering abilities with his skills as a racing driver the results were formidable. Derek's rise to the top was a modern-day fairy tale, but when his life was brought to an abrupt end by a freak hang gliding accident on 12 March 1978 the legend that was Chevron died with him. After travelling many thousands of miles to trace the people who knew and worked with Derek, motor racing journalist David Gordon tells the Derek Bennett story and that of his brainchild Chevron Cars, charting the contributions of the many people who played a part in the company's meteoric rise to success, and telling why it all happened the way it did. |
 History |
A brief history of Chevron, which I wrote for Autosport magazine in 1990. |
| Chevron - The Derek Bennett Story was originally published by Patrick Stephens Limited, who are a subsidiary of Haynes Publishing. In February 2005 it was reprinted by DBG Publishing to mark the 40th anniversary of Chevron. Copies are available from specialist motoring bookshops or can be bought online from Chevron Racing. | Click here to buy a copy of Chevron - The Derek Bennett Story |
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Introduction | Chapter 1 | Type Numbers | History |