Grapevine

March, 1977

Lose Some, Win SomeBritish racing driver James Hunt has gone through a couple of years that one might label manic. It started off with his original backer having withdrawn its support and his wife, Suzy, having left him for Richard Burton. It ended on a rain-swept Japanese race course, when Hunt became England's first world champion in eight years. Hunt shrugs off the broken marriage: "It was no great personal tragedy. Now I'm enjoying myself." At the top of his sport at 29, Hunt expec...