Duncan Tappy is next up for DSC’s 20 Questions With… feature:
1. Who is your all time motorsport hero?
Jim Clark, for his ability to hop between machinery and kick ass!
2. What is your favourite circuit?
The Circuit de la Sarthe
3. What is your least favourite circuit?
Oulton Park.
4. What and where was your first sportscar race?
2008 ELMS Monza 1000kms, when I drove in LMP1 for Rollcentre.
5. Who is your best teammate?
There’s only one Meyrick!!
6. Have you got a favourite livery?
The livery of the Harrods McLaren F1 GTR
7. What do you feel is the best current championship?
The FIA WEC
8. Have you got one big idea to improve sportscar racing? (It cannot involve BoP or driver rankings!)
More tyre allowance. Could always do with more tyres! 🙂
9. By the way, what do you feel your driver ranking should be?
What it is already.
10. What is your favourite racing movie or documentary?
‘Days of Thunder’ of course.
11. What is your favourite racing book?
Damon Hill – Watching the Wheels.
12. Who is the best team manager you have worked with in your career?
Fred Vasseur – ART Grand Prix.
13. What artist or song do you listen to before a race?
I actually don’t listen to music before a race.
14. Do you have any racing superstitions?
Too many to list.
15. What is your favourite piece of racing memorabilia?
I’ve got a set of painted side pods from karting. Crazy idea but they lasted and bring back great memories.
16. Have you got a racing rival?
There’s been a few over the years.
17. Who in motorsport would you most like to get drunk with?
Kimi Raikkonen.
18. Who is the toughest driver you have had to face?
Gary Catt – He was a rival in karting. Bloody fast, hard racer and always made things look so effortless
19. If you could compete in one race from racing history, which would it be?
1995 Le Mans – Purely to see and hear the McLaren F1 GTR win.
20. Who from racing would you most like to be in lockdown with?
Someone who has a golf course in their back garden.
