Jacky Ickx isn’t a household name in the same way ... In British saloon cars, Ickx was a regular for Lotus while in Formula 2, Tyrrell, BMW and Ferrari called upon his services too.

Nothing symbolised this battle more than the cars used by top contenders: Jacky Ickx’s Ferrari 312B relied on brute force to compensate for its outdated styling, whereas Jochen Rindt’s Lotus ...