A watched pot never boils, right? - so I had turned the radio off, thinking to mysef that certain that somehow I would jinx it at the very end.

notes from the time : We parked at Tetre Rouge and walked up. I was pretty nervous at this point. Without the radio on I'd watch the cars go by - most seemed to go by carried by a momentum. The Factory Porsches, the Brun, Kremer & Joest Porsches, and many other cars didn't seem to be anything other than part of a train that kept rolling by. But the Jags seemed to be hanging on by a thread - driven by will - and not by the engine itself - but by the engine's conscious will.

Each time the #2 Jag went by I thought, and sometimes said out loud "just hang on - keep it rolling" And then I'd think of Lofty England (the Team manager in 1955) telling his driver Ivor Bueb "keep that car motoring"