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	Sotheby's to sell collection of works of art from easton neston
		It was at Easton Neston that Lord Hesketh, equally well known for his love of motor-racing, originally created Hesketh Racing which designed and developed the Formula 1 models raced for Hesketh by James Hunt.
		The Hesketh collection largely joined that of the Fermors when the families elided at the end of the 19th century.
		Sir Thomas Fermor Hesketh was a particularly keen collector of Oriental Works of Art, having visited Japan and the Far East during his World Tour 1879/80, and his interest is amply reflected in the sale.
	www.nieuwsbank.nl /en/2005/05/17/v002.htm?fmt=INPPRINT

	F1 : Hesketh Info Page
		Lord Alexander Hesketh remained active in many areas of motorsports and is the President of the British Racing Drivers Club.
		A young British Lord and racing enthusiast, Alexander Hesketh decided to start his own team in 1973.
		The team found a small degree of success in 1975, winning the Dutch GP, but the financial strain was too much for Hesketh and at the end of the '75 season he disbanded the team.
	www.mcz.com /f1/team/hesketh.htm

	wolf.html
		Walter now made the desision to start the 1977 season with a new one car team to be driven by Jody Scheckter and so was born the Walter Wolf Racing WR-1.
		Sadly for Walter this was to be his best year in F1 for in 1978-79 the Team failed to come to grips with the ground effects revolution and Walter decided to Quit Formula One Racing by agreeing to a merger with Team Fittipaldi for the start of the 1980 Season.
		Harvey Designed the cars for Team Hesketh in 1975 and when that team was brought out by Walter Wolf Harvey joined the Team to continue development on the car which was not a success.
	www.geocities.com /MotorCity/Flats/4601/wolf.html (454 words)

	WilliamsF1 History 67-77 - Early Years Williams F1 - Unofficial Williams F1 News and Views
		His motor racing career was to commence in 1964 when he raced a crash repaired F3 Brabham with owner Anthony "Bubbles" Horsley.
		By 1975 the situation had improved little but it was at this time that he meet the Canadian Walter Wolf who was to eventually buy a 60% share of Williams Racing Cars.
		The team was renamed Walter Wolf racing for the start of the 1976 season.
	www.sportnetwork.net /main/s107/st4062.php (708 words)

	British Racing Drivers Club Deny Brands Take-Over
		Lord Hesketh stated further that the BRDC desires to retain the most important racing asset in England.
		BRDC members are now considering a plan by Lord Hesketh for the creation of a new company, Silverstone Circuits Group, to lease operations from the club in an effort to reorganize and build a better financial structure.
		In January, rumours surfaced that Silverstone may lose the British Grand Prix to Brands Hatch if they sold the circuit to anyone other than Nicola Foulston of Brands Hatch Leisure as Foulston had the backing of Bernie Ecclestone.
	www.atlasf1.com /news/1999/1253.htm (192 words)

	Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
		Hesketh called a halt to the operation and sold his cars to Frank Williams, who was embarking on an ill-fated partnership with Walter Wolf.
		Lord Alexander Hesketh was a man born with a passion for motor sport and the sort of fortune that could afford him his own team to play with.
		During their first season in the circus the Hesketh team was often frowned upon by the more established teams, with their penchant for parties and champagne-toting butlers in the pitlane.
	www.gpracing.net192.com /teams/61.cfm (436 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Hesketh Racing
		Hesketh, however, set a deadline for finding sponsorship to keep the team going and when that passed he announced that he was pulling out of F1.
		Lord Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, the third baron of Hesketh, was born in 1950 and succeeded to the title at the age of five.
		In the end Horsley and Hunt convinced Hesketh that they were wasting their time in F2 and the team became a full-time F1 operation.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-heske.html (821 words)

	Hesketh Bank and Tarleton Village History
		The squire or lord of the manor (ancestor of the Heskeths) built a track for horse racing on the banks of the Ribble (probably Hesketh Marsh) and that's where the name comes from.
		Hesketh comes from Hes + Skeidt - Viking and means Horse + Track.
		Apparently the Viking were quite passionate about pitting their horse against one another.
	www.heskethbank.com /history.html (366 words)

	The History of Hesketh Motorcycles
		Inspired by Lord Hesketh, who at the time had a background of F1 racing being the last private team to win a F1 Grand Prix with James Hunt at the wheel.
		Lord Hesketh wanted to use the skills and facilities built up in that pursuit to greater effect and production of a quality motorcycle was born.
		The Hesketh motorcycle was developed on the Easton Neston estate, the home of the Lord, with the prototype running in the spring of 1980 with, which was then a special Weslake engine commissioned for the Hesketh machine.
	www.broom.engineering.btinternet.co.uk /background.htm (366 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Hesketh Racing
		Lord Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, the third baron of Hesketh, was born in 1950 and succeeded to the title at the age of five.
		Hesketh, however, set a deadline for finding sponsorship to keep the team going and when that passed he announced that he was pulling out of F1.
		Hesketh also hired Harvey Postlethwaite from March to be chief engineer.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-heske.html (366 words)

	8W - Who? - James Hunt
		Lord Hesketh had been deeply interested in motor racing for most of his life and he had already begun to get involved with some of the sport's personalities.
		This was all thrown to the wind when the Hesketh team arrived on the Formula One scene in 1973 and, amid laughter and ridicule from rivals, began to pick up good places in their rented March 731.
		With Hesketh having loads of funds to invest he first acquired a worn Surtees for James to use in non-champ events (our picture), before digging out deep and purchasing a brand new March 731 for James' entrance into the big league in '73.
	8w.forix.com /hunt.html (366 words)

	Biography
		Hesketh had an F2 teambut needed a driver, Hunt needed a car, so James was hired, and they started racing.
		He finished fourth in the championship that year, but Lord Hesketh, who ran his team without sponsorship ran out of money, and couldn't find a sponsor, so the team ended.
		It wasn't great, the Hesketh F2 Surtees car was overweight and slow, and Hunt crashed several times trying too hard.
	www.hunttheshunt.20megsfree.com /about.html (366 words)

	GrandPrix.com > News > Hesketh selling up
		Hesketh set up his own racing team when he was in his early 20s and hired James Hunt.
		Lord Hesketh, the former boss of the Hesketh F1 team who went on to become a government minister, the treasurer of the Conservative party and the president of the BRDC, is selling his family's ancestral home at Easton Neston, near Silverstone.
		The result was the Hesketh 308 and in the summer of 1975 Hunt won the Dutch GP and finished second three times and finished fourth in the World Championship.
	www.grandprix.com /ns/ns12899.html (366 words)

	Farewell to a Friend
		Former team owner Lord Hesketh, for whom Postlethwaite designed the winning Hesketh 308 said, "He was a great man with a young family, some of the best years of my life were spent in his company.
		When the Hesketh team folded due to lack of funds, Postlethwaite moved to the new Wolf team funded by the oil magnate Walter Wolf.
		Financed solely by the extroverted Lord Hesketh, managed by "Bubbles" Horsley, it launched the career of the late James Hunt.
	www.atlasf1.com /99/apr21/horton.html (366 words)

	Hesketh Racing - Wikipedia
		formel 1-stall som grundades av Lord Alexander Hesketh
		I slutet av 1975 upplöste Lord Hesketh teamet, som då övertogs av
		Det första året och i början av det andra körde man med en March-Ford -bil.
	sv.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hesketh_Racing (366 words)

	GrandPrix.com > News > Lord Hesketh under pressure
		LORD ALEXANDER HESKETH, former Formula 1 team owner and the president of the British Racing Drivers' Club, is reportedly under pressure to resign his position following the announcement that the British Grand Prix will move to BrandsæHatch in 2002.
		But, it is not enough for some of the 830 members of the BRDC who hold Hesketh and his board of directors responsible for the failure to keep the British GP.
		Location: GrandPrix.com > News > Lord Hesketh under pressure
	www.grandprix.com /ns/ns02035.html (366 words)

	British Racing Drivers Club Deny Brands Take-Over
		Lord Hesketh stated further that the BRDC desires to retain the most important racing asset in England.
		BRDC members are now considering a plan by Lord Hesketh for the creation of a new company, Silverstone Circuits Group, to lease operations from the club in an effort to reorganize and build a better financial structure.
		"There was solidarity that Silverstone is not to be sold," said BRDC President Lord Hesketh.
	www.atlasf1.com /news/1999/1253.htm (366 words)

	eBay in the News: Hunt's F1 Car on eBay UK
		The Hesketh team, which was disbanded in 1977, was the last independently owned racing team.
		Lord Hesketh said: "James's car has been in storage long enough, and it is time for someone to enjoy it.
		James Hunt drove this car to victory in the Dutch Grand Prix in 1975, under team owner Lord Hesketh.
	pages.ebay.co.uk /community/aboutebay/news/own_james_hunt_car.html (366 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Walter Wolf Racing
		The team was based in the Williams facility at Bennett Road, Reading but used the equipment and the cars which had belonged to Hesketh Racing, Wolf having bought the assets of the team.
		Wolf helped the team to survive and at the end of the year proposed to buy 60% of Frank Williams (Racing Cars) Ltd. but agreed to leave Williams as General Manager.
		In the course of 1978 Wolf also financed the construction of a Dallara Formula 3 chassis - known as WD1 - which Bobby Rahal raced in Wolf colors in European F3 races.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-walte.html (594 words)

	Riccardo Patrese - The Italian Hero
		He drove for Theodore Racing (1978), Hesketh Racing (1978), Osella (1980), Tyrrell (1981), Talbot (1982), Renault (1983), Euroracing (1984-1985), Lola (1986) and Arrows (1987-1989).
		Cheever's first race in Formula One was the 1978 Argentinian Grand Prix in January 15.
		Cheever also was Riccardo's co-driver in some races of World Championship for Makes (1980) and World Endurance Championship (1983).
	www.rpatrese.com /mates/cheever.htm (594 words)

	Northants News: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More
		All 1,574 lots are being sold from May 17 by Lord Alexander Hesketh (below), whose Hesketh motor racing team put James Hunt on the road to Grand Prix glory.
		When he announced that a "for sale" sign was to go up, Lord Hesketh, whose family have lived on the estate for more than 470 years, said the decision was traumatic but had to be made as he faced annual losses of between Â£500,000 and Â£1.5 million.
		The entire Easton Neston estate, which includes the village of Hulcote, was put up for sale by a year ago, for Â£50 million, because of the estate's high running costs.
	www.northantsnews.com /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=317&ArticleID=1003509 (594 words)

	Williams / BMW, Formula one Team Williams / BMW, Formula 1 Team Williams / BMW, F1 Team Williams / BMW, F1 Champion Williams / BMW
		Williams failed to win a race in 1998 and at the end of the year Villeneuve left to join British American Racing and Frentzen moved to Jordan.
		The car was not a success and Wolf asked Harvey Postlethwaite (who had come from Hesketh) to design a new car for 1977.
		In 1976 Williams was forced to go into partnership with Walter Wolf Racing to pay his debts.
	www.wheel2wheel.com /teamdetail.asp?teamid=266 (2270 words)

	1977 - Canadian Grand Prix
		Pratrese crashed into Rupert Keegan's Hesketh, which had been abandoned earlier, and Villeneuve retired on the spot with a broken halfshaft - the others were able to continue.
		Patriotic support was also given to the Wolf WR 3 driven by Jody Scheckter and owned by Montreal businessman Walter Wolf.
		Scheckter now inherited the lead of a race that he thought he had no chance of winning after the Wolf WR 3 suffered a broken exhaust system.
	www.zoompics.com /1977f1.htm (1737 words)

	Derek Daly - Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
		Daly was brought up in the cut and thrust of British national F1 and F3 competition, having worked in Australian tin mines to fund his early racing.
		He made his F1 debut with Hesketh and Ensign in the 1978-9 season before getting his big break with Tyrrell the following year, finishing fourth in the Argentine and British GPs.
		Derek Daly - Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
	www.gpracing.net192.com /drivers/careers/152.cfm (1737 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Hesketh Racing
		In the end Horsley and Hunt convinced Hesketh that they were wasting their time in F2 and the team became a full-time F1 operation.
		The meteoric rise continued with fourth place at the British GP and third in Holland and the season ended at Watkins Glen with James crossing the line just behind winner Ronnie Peterson in his Lotus.
		The team struggled on into 1978 when Olympus money was found for Divina Galica but she failed to qualify for the first two races and although Cheever qualified a car in South Africa he failed to finish the race.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-heske.html (821 words)

	Eddie Cheever, . F1 Driver Profile, Formula One Driver Profile
		Enormously popular, yet sometimes regarded as rather highly strung, this American driver grew up in Italy where he cut his competitive teeth in kart racing during his early teens.
		Cheever made his Formula 1 debut in a one-off outing for the Hesketh team in the 1978 South African Grand Prix, but it was not until 1980 that he became a full-time member of the Formula 1 fraternity when his Formula 2 entrant Enzo Osella graduated to the big time.
		Since then Cheever has become a team owner in the Indy Racing League, with the backing of Red Bull.
	www.wheel2wheel.com /driverprofile.asp?driverid=201 (821 words)

	6th Gear - Years in Gear - World Championship constructor history
		Lucky Strike British American Racing Honda ('00) Lucky Strike Reynard British American Racing Honda ('01) Lucky Strike BAR Honda ('02-'05)
		* Private entry by Frank Williams Racing Cars.
		Williams FW05-02 (1976), new chassis based on Hesketh 308C-02, renamed Wolf-Williams FW05-02 from Spanish GP on
	8w.forix.com /6thgear/con-yby.html (1819 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Circuits > Kyalami
		The outbreak of World War II stopped all racing activity and it was not until the late 1950s that racing revived with events being held at tracks at Gunner's Circle in Cape Town, Grand Central in Johannesburg and on the Roy Hesketh circuit in Pietermaritzburg.
		The first of a new generation of racing circuits was established in 1959 at East London.
		While most of Africa was unable to develop motor racing, South Africa had the stability and financial means to support the sport although the first events did not take place until 1934 when a track in East London - called the Prince George circuit - was laid out in the outskirts of the city.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/cir-069.html (1221 words)

	Bloomberg.com: U.K.
		May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Alexander Hesketh, who's famous for sponsoring a Formula One racing team, raised 5.4 million pounds ($9.9 million) yesterday by selling furniture, knickknacks and paintings in Northamptonshire, England.
		Lord Hesketh, 54, also put his estate and Towcester race course on the block for 50 million pounds.
		The family is moving to a smaller property after 470 years on the same site, said New York-based Sotheby's, which is handling the furniture sale for Lord and Lady Hesketh and the trustees of Frederick Hesketh.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=a90N8fnC71V8&refer=uk (660 words)

	Towcester Race Course - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Towcester Race Course is a horse racing course at Towcester (pronounced "Toaster") in Northamptonshire, England.
		Towcester is highly popular among the racing fraternity, because if the sharp bends in the course, and the final gallop to the finishing post is uphill, which tests the horses and reults in some unexpected finishes.
		The Towcester Racecourse Company was formed under the direction of Lord Hesketh, and it was on his estate that course has evolved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Towcester_Race_Course (200 words)

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