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INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
Res Publica, 1970. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition.
John Love was a racing driver from Rhodesia. He participated in 10 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 29 December 1962. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of six championship points.
Six times South African Formula One Champion in the 1960s, he had originally shone in the European Formula Junior firmament back in 1961–62 at the wheel of a Cooper-Austin from Ken Tyrrell's team. He was nominated as Phil Hill's replacement in the works Cooper team for the 1964 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
He was a regular contestant in the South African Grand Prix from 1965 to 1972. He was leading the 1967 South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in his 2.7 L Climax-engined Cooper, when a misfire prompted him to make a precautionary stop for extra fuel. He dropped back to finish second behind the works Cooper-Maserati of Pedro Rodríguez.
Love would dominate racing in southern Africa in the 1960s, winning the South African Formula One Championship six times in succession from 1964 to 1969. He would also win his home race, the Rhodesian Grand Prix, six times.