Team owner Richard Lloyd, driver David Leslie killed in plane crash:

Veteran British sports-car racing team owner Richard Lloyd, 63, a regular at the 24 Hours of Le Mans over three decades, was killed on Sunday, March 30, in a plane crash.

Lloyd died along with former British Touring Car Championship race winner David Leslie, 54, and three other people when their Citation jet went down shortly after taking off south of London. The plane was on its way to the south of France where a Jaguar XKR GT3 built by Lloyd’s Apex team was due to test.

Lloyd was a race winner in the BTCC in the 1970s and then famously tempted Stirling Moss out of retirement to race a factory-backed Audi for his team in the series in 1980. Lloyd’s Porsches won three world championship sports-car events in the 1980s and his teams went on to represent both Audi and Bentley at Le Mans. Lloyd was in the background when Bentley returned to the Le Mans winner’s circle in 2003. His Apex team was an integral part of what became known as Team Bentley.

More recently, Lloyd’s team brought Jaguar back to international motorsports in the FIA GT3 European Championship.

autoweek.com

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