Within a couple of weeks Goodwin was formally signed up as lead driver, replacing Lockie for reasons that were never made clear. We could have put a high-profile professional in the car but we wanted to keep it as a purely privateer team. The kind of white collar criminals we hear about all the time – who just don't happen to get into professional racing. During his short appearance, he ill-advisedly boasted to presenter Quentin Willson that he had once driven his McLaren F1 at 170mph on the M40 motorway.

Cox was tracked down and found to be living in a Premier Inn hotel in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, at the time of his arrest. She posed next to the car dressed in white racing overalls, together with Munroe and Calum Lockie, the team’s professional driver, who was to share driving duties and had been introduced to Munroe by driver coach Les Goble. Although his job prospects and personal life didn’t change materially over the next couple of years, he ended up being able to acquire a Ferrari 348tb in the classic and desirable colour combination of Rosso Corsa with cream hide interior.

In subsequent interviews with Thames Valley Police, he admitted all the charges of fraud, saying that he did it because he was ‘disillusioned with his job’ and wanted to ‘step up’. Besides the cars already mentioned — the two Ferraris and the two McLarens — his fleet of road cars included three Aston Martins, three Mercedes and a Ferrari 550 Maranello. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Questions had already been raised about the honesty of this ostensibly very ordinary man who took excessive amounts of sick leave so that he could devote time to his extracurricular activities.

When Goodwin flew in from America, where he had been racing at Sebring, and topped the official pre-season testing sessions at Silverstone, spirits were high and Spires said: ‘It couldn’t have gone better. This was supposedly a fact-finding mission to investigate the possibility of running the McLaren in the last three rounds of the ALMS season. Inevitably, like most youngsters with similar aspirations, there was neither the money nor the opportunity to fulfil his ambitions. For the next round, at Brands Hatch on 20th June, Munroe again took the start for a short stint before handing over to his ‘pro’ co-driver with the car two laps down. He made up the lost time before handing over to Munroe, who brought the car home a disappointing sixth, nearly two laps down on the winner.

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People in the British GT paddock were intrigued about where this previously unknown driver had come from, especially one who not only owned a McLaren for road use but could also afford to own and race another one. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.His fellow competitors found him a very ordinary, quiet and unassuming man who made no attempt to mix with them. He had also acquired two important historic racing cars, an ex-Gerhard Berger Benetton Formula 1 car and a Silk Cut-liveried Jaguar XJR Le Mans car. After trying unsuccessfully to entice various high-profile owners to take part, the programme’s producers had to look elsewhere.

Interesting subject matter, sort of light on high crimes and heavier on white-collar offenses, but the reader learns a lot. Despite this, most of the amateurs at this level were capable drivers, as they needed to be to handle such powerful race-bred machinery.He said: ‘Any funds that are siphoned off [from BEC] dishonestly means a reduction of funds that are available for the community and for the regeneration of this area.