Robin Bryant who won the Autosport Championship 1000cc Class in 1960 in a Barwell-entered semi-works Turner BMC died on 23 June.
Bryant (pictured second from right) had previously competed in the newly established Stock Car Racing for three seasons.
Success would follow in 1959, behind the wheel of an Austin A35 entered and tuned by Barwell Motors of Chessington, winning four races.
In 1961, Bryant was contracted to Jack Brabham to drive the works Sunbeam Alpine and Sunbeam Rapier.
Racing the Rapier just twice he took victories at Goodwood and Snetterton, but the Alpine – in his only race with the car – was less successful when faced with the Jaguar E-types of Roy Salvadori and Graham Hill.
Bryant had been earmarked to test the MRD, which would later become Brabham’s entry into the 1962 Formula Junior Championship, but after two accidents in John Hine's Lola Formula Junior he was ruled out in favour of Denny Hulme.
