Mike Taylor (racing driver)
Michael Taylor ( born April 24, 1934 in London ) is a British former racing driver.
Michael Taylor drove in the late 1950s as an amateur with a Lotus XI sports car racing in the UK and won a few club races. In 1959 he won with his Lotus Grand Prix of the Frontières at Chimay and rose with a Formula 2 Cooper in the single-seater scene. After winning the BARC 200 at Aintree his first and only race followed in Formula 1
For Alan Brown Equipe he started with a Cooper T45 at the Grand Prix of Great Britain 1959 in Aintree. The gig was a failure, Taylor was forced to retire with the clutch just before the race circuit to problems. 1960 Taylor tried again in Formula 1 with the Lotus 18 he wanted to go to the starting line at the Grand Prix of Belgium. In one of the worst Grand Prix weekends in history - in the race Chris Bristow and Alan Stacey died, Stirling Moss crashed in training hard, but escaped with his life - Taylor had a bad accident. The Lotus raced for a steering defect in the forest and was almost completely destroyed on impact. Miraculously came Taylor with his life. He suffered serious injuries, but was fully recovered. His racing career was too late.