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Pioneer who loved his life in the fast lane

Was he the last of the old school or the first of the new breed?

Innes Ireland’s motor racing career ran from the era of gentlemanly derring-do to the technical age that would follow, from japes and high jinks to steely-eyed and calculated determination, and even now it is hard to say quite where he sat on that spectrum.