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Collins followed that with a win at the September Goodwood meeting, and more good results followed on both tracks and hills through 1950 (moving to a lightweight Cooper Mk IV mid-season) and 1951, with a JBS.
Collins was already a grand Prix driver, having made his debut at the age of just 20 (and only two seasons of racing) with the HWM-Alta. Spotted by HWM founders John Heath and George Abecassis (both also early Cooper customers), young Collins had partnered Moss and Lance Macklin through the 1951 European F2 season.
Indeed, Collins was on the verge of becoming Britain's first F1 World Champion when he handed his Lancia-Ferrari D50 over to team leader Juan Manuel Fangio after the latter suffered a steering-arm faliure toward the end of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
This selfless, team-orientated action gained Collins immense respect among the Italian racing tifosi, and the gratitude and admiration of Enzo Ferrari himself, a man notoriously hard to please.
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