Quote Originally Posted by Carlo View Post
Likewise good to see you here Richard, give the old folks a hug from us both.
I was running Lyn Johnson in the Cuda against Jeff in the Swift and at that time both those cars were great race cars in traffic but they were not that great as out and out fast lap cars as Mike King and Lou Scholum could usualy both put in faster laps than either Jeff or Lyn. Jeff however had in my opinion, more talent and more determination to win than the other three and that is why he came out on top so often. As many of us know winning is a habit, so is coming 2nd & 3rd. Jeff made a habit of winning.
Kevin Ingram was another with a talent level similar to that of Jeff's but not quite the same level of committment and determination to succeed. I also think that Jeff had more out and out racecraft skills than the others that were running during that time too.

We also ran against each other for the full South Island FF series and again Jeff got the best of Lyn with from memeory Jeff winning about 90 - 95% of the encounters between the two of them over the season. 2nd was not an option for our Jeff.
We let him loose in Keith Laneys RT4 at the end of one Timaru meeting and within a few laps that was the quickest that car had ever been around the place and within a few more he was close to competative FP times, could he have raised the funding it would have been interesting to see what he could have done with one
hi carlo,
i well remember those days--i used to enjoy watching Jeff race and as a young fulla not far away from getting into ff myself he was the guy i aspired to be.hell of a nice guy too and was very helpful to dad and i took as much info as i could digest as well.jeff had a great race brain and in my opinion was one of the best weve seen in ff,paul larsen ,shane drake,ashley stitchbury and gary croft werent too bad either(slightly different era though)..i also remember well lyn's harness marks after his wigram shunt ,that era had some extremely talented drivers who raced hard and fair and then retired to the bar.
you know its tough now that most young drivers/families start circuit racing with a career as motivation.very few have the passion to do without the luxuries of life while they get established and crikey do they ever come and go at a high rate now.