Mike Nicholson, who sadly handed yesterday, was one in all Britain’s best possible co-drivers, however he was a person who had his eye and his coronary heart set on staff administration.
Having labored in-car with a number of the greats together with Jimmy McRae, Tony Pond, Pentti Airikkala, Terry Kaby, Andrew Wooden and Derek Bell, Mike made the transfer to staff administration on the high of the Nineties. From there, he steered Vauxhall to its best motorsport glories each on stage and on monitor.
A former team-mate and fellow co-driver, Mike Broad remembers the lifetime of his shut pal of 55 years.
“That appears like a very long time, 55 years. In all that point, I don’t suppose I ever noticed Mike get indignant – that simply wasn’t who he was. He was all the time that sunny form of man, all the time constructive and searching forwards.
“That’s to not say his endurance wasn’t examined infrequently; I’m certain all of us keep in mind his time co-driving Derek Bell and that well-known – or possibly notorious – ‘Oh, Derek, simply take heed to me!’ clip from after they did the 1988 RAC Rally collectively in an Astra. I had such admiration for Mike in the way in which he caught to that program with Derek, it wasn’t a simple experience with a few crashes alongside the way in which. However that was Mike: he may see the worth within the venture and he wished to get him to the tip.
