Jutta Fausel grew up behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany, near Berlin, but escaped with her parents in 1961 to settle in West Germany near Stuttgart. Very soon after arriving, a visit to her first race, the Solitude Grand Prix, left her spellbound. Before long, she realised that she could combine her passion for photography with motorsport and attempt to make her living. The European F2 Championship was where Jutta established herself, usually travelling to the races in her old VW Beetle, taking her photos, driving home through the night, developing the films and making prints, delivering them to her main magazine client in Stuttgart, and only then getting some sleep. She covered the championship throughout its 18 years, meanwhile broadening out into other areas of racing, above all F1. Nowadays she lives in California with her husband, John Ward, a race engineer, and still supplies publishers with photos from her extensive archive. Chris Witty was a motor racing journalist for much of the period covered by this book, first with Motoring News, then Autosport, and Formula 2 was the focus of his reporting. From 1980 he moved into public relations and marketing, first with the Toleman Group during the period in which it raced in Formula 2 and ran Ayrton Senna in its Formula 1 team. Following a spell with Richard Branson's Virgin Group, he set up his own consultancy business, Chris Witty Associates, to handle marketing, sponsorship and media activities.
