In November 2019 I met John Mann at the Island Magic meeting at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in southern Victoria. John has a long and illustrious career in motorsport so it was great to have a chat.
John, who is now eighty and despite a battle with cancer, is still racing.
In the chat John covered
• His first car, an open wheeler, he made himself
• The many cars he raced
• He nursed about eight of the current supercar drivers when they were babies. Craig Lowndes’ father was his pit crew manager.
• As a young mechanic and he made a mistake that costs a world champion bike rider the race. He had to escape and hide out for a while
• His Friendship with Barry Sheene and his own fight with cancer
An edited version of the interview appeared in the Overdrive radio program first broadcast on 7 December 2019.
http://drivenmedia.com.au/wp/overdrive-machine-the-movie-artificial-intelligence-automated-cars-classic-cars-and-democracy/
We also produced a video of several other characters who were racing at the meeting “Reflections from Phillip Island”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDAngSR5EMw

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