Derek Warwick

fiercely competitive.

I mean, and we had Derek Warwick there.

you know, who was the driver's steward.

There was Gary Connolly.

But Bruce Giovanni also didn't mention his single season in the British Touring Car Championship either in 2019 in an Audi S3 Saloon.

gleaning five points but he wasn't in the strongest car in fairness but those Le Mans that Le Mans success will certainly stand Blundell in good stead moving forward he finished first in 1992 in the Peugeot Talbot Sport 905 with Derek Warwick and Yannick Dalmas third position in class the following year in 1995 in the McLaren F1 GTR Was that a surprise PMAC to you that Conway is going to step away entirely from motor racing?

That's a good point I've been thinking a bit about it over the last few days you know because this has been talked about openly for quite a while now that Mike Conway was not going to be continuing with Toyota now what I didn't quite realize or appreciate was that it was because that was his choice to step away and I did think if he wasn't stepping away it would be strange to swap him out of the team but it's good that he's making that decision on his own terms and I think that's what every driver would want to do is when they decide that they've They've had enough.

That's it.

I remember going to Fruxton for the first time, which is...

the quickest circuit in the UK by quite a chunk and the speed at which you were going it didn't feel it didn't feel natural it's like this is too quick so yeah they were quick and you know even at those speeds you're still you know tap tap on people's bumpers uh so yeah it was quite physical I think people were quite respectful but they but so I don't think there was much let's say dirty driving it was all pretty clean but no one gave an inch And I think Derek Warwick in the alpha, I was permanently qualifying up to Derek Warwick.

And that was a permanent pain in the bum because either I was hitting him or him was hitting me half the time just for no fault of road.

It's just a busy track.

Yeah.

if that happens it's a mistake people are just trying to be annoying to the person in front and just keep reminding them that they're there or be slightly sneaky some of the trawlers and just gentle tap see if we can panic you and push you wide but everybody's generally been quite fair so Physical, great fun, but no one really being too naughty.

You were saying about Derek Warwick and you two did cross swords a few times that year.

I mean, was that pretty? I mean, Derek was a sports car world champion, XF1 driver.

Footwork then very much a middling F1 team.

They were running Derek Warwick and Aguri Suzuki at the time.

Had a few decent qualifying performances that year, not that many results.

Grabbed a fourth place on, on one occasion.

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Derek Warwick, Ian Harrison.

Yeah.

So these guys are interesting guys, right?

Seven years later, Toyota was a contender.

In 1992, its TS 010 finished second behind a Peugeot 905 driven by Derek Warwick, Marc Blondel and Yannick Dalmas.

Then, in 1994, Group C was finished and Toyota had pulled its factory support.

But a Japanese team called SARD bought an old Toyota 94CV to Le Mans and it led.

It's funny because that weekend, obviously, he and Russell Ingle were together, which a lot of people forget that they shared a car.

But John Clow and Derek Warwick were in the other car.

And there's stickers that appeared on both cars.

The Holden with the Aussies said the young ones.