During my early interest in Formula One Peter Arundell was one of the drivers to watch. Since Formula One wasn't on TV in those days I mostly read about him. I did get a chance to see him at Watkins Glen in New York for the 1966 US Grand Prix. He did a fine job that day coming in sixth behind driving big guns of the day....Jim Clark, Jochen Rindt, John Surtees, Jo Siffert, Bruce McLaren. It was not to last because he was replaced later that year by that classic driver, Graham Hill.
In those days death was always knocking at the door in the racing industry. Of those top six in that race only Arundell and Surtees survived not being taken on a race track. Surtees is 75 and Clark died in 1968, Rindt-1970, Siffert-1971 and McLaren-1970. You could hardly keep up to it in those days.
