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Neil Cunningham: Remembering a national favourite

Neil Cunningham was a national-racing favourite who was just 53 when he lost his battle against motor-neurone disease a few weeks ago. Here is a personal account of a popular racer

Born in New Zealand, but raised on Australia's Gold Coast, Neil Cunningham's love of motoring and motorsport developed at an early age. Showing a talent for driving cars, he managed to scrape a number of drives in local championships down under before travelling to Britain in 1983 as a winner of the Australian Driver to Europe competition.

As a Kiwi it was no mean feat in its own right to win an Australian prize! "Tell them you're an Aussie when you get there, they won't know the difference," was the advice as he boarded the plane.

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