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By any standards it has been an incredible journey, one which has seen an apprentice aircraft fitter progress through the ranks of three of motorsport's premier categories before electing to take up a senior management position at a Formula One facility which promises to be one of, if not the, most spectacular circuits built in recent times.
Along the way triumph has mixed with tragedy, success with failure and honour with humiliation, but through it all Toyota Motorsport GmbH's departing team manager Richard Cregan remained one of the sport's better guys, always ready with a smile and a good word despite the enormous pressures of his job.
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