The Le Mans winner's project celebrating a major milestone
Deciding what to do after racing is a challenge for many racers, but a British Le Mans ace chose to get ahead of the game while his career was going strong. Now Base Performance Simulators is celebrating a decade in business, Darren Turner tells its story
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A decade ago Darren Turner was a two-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner and a factory Aston Martin driver with gigs in GT racing and LMP1. Life was pretty good, but Turner wasn't to know that his racing career would continue so strongly through the 2010s (and yield another success in the French endurance classic in 2017) and saw an opportunity.
The 1996 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner had played a key part in developing McLaren's Formula 1 simulator and decided to turn that knowledge to good use by starting a business.
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