Chapter 19

Can you keep your head when you can see the cars hunting you down from behind, or do you crack? When the car ahead feels just within reach if you push a little harder, do you manage your tires, cause a crash, or pull off a brilliant overtake and take the checkered flag in first? In every one of those ways, Johann Hayward was an outstanding driver. Johann’s genius behind the wheel, and his love for cars, hardly needed explaining. As a child, he’d played with nuts and bolts, engine pistons and cylinders, and wrenches. By the time he started racing go-karts, people were already calling him a prodigy.