Unluckiest

Chris Amon is often considered one of the unluckiest Formula One drivers ever. Whenever he was positioned to win a race, bad luck would interfere, ultimately preventing him from scoring a single victory. Amon himself, however, maintained that he counted himself lucky to have survived a decade-long F1 career mostly unscathed, while many of his fellow drivers suffered serious injury or death.

I noted with interest the reference to the Garratt locomotives in the article on the Djibouti-Addis Ababa Railway in your October issue, for these belong to what is surely one of the unluckiest classes ever built.