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Britain's Dennis Taylor was a popular and experienced driver from Sidcup, South London, where he was born in 1921. A licensee from Eltham, Kent, he started his career in 1951 racing in the competitive world of the British 500 cm³ Formula 3. During his long and successful career in the series, he drove a number of different cars such as the Iota in which he made his debut, a JBS, an Arnott, a Martin, a Staride and a Cooper. In mid-1950s he abandoned the Formula 3 and progressed to sportscar and Formula 2 racing, driving a Cooper T39-Climax.

In 1957, Dennis Taylor was hired by Arnott Cars to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, sharing a 1.1-litre Coventry Climax FPF engined Arnott Sports with Jim Russell, but ignition trouble after seven hour of race forced them into a withdraw. In 1958 and 1959 Dennis Taylor competed in British Formula 2 races, driving a 1.5-litre Lotus 12-Climax FPF. On 18 June 1959 he made his single World Championship Formula 1 entry, failing to qualify in the 1959 British Grand Prix at Aintree, at the wheel of his Formula 2 Lotus.

When in the late 1950s the new Formula Junior was introduced in Europe, Dennis Taylor acquired a front-engined Lola Mk2-BMC Speedwell, entered by Team George Henrotte. During the 1960 season, Taylor scored two impressive wins within one week in July, in the Grand Prix de La Châtre, France and in the Formula Junior ADAC-Eifelrennen on the Nürburgring Südschleife, when it poured with rain. During that whole race he was closely followed by John Love, who finished second in another Fiat-powered Lola Mk2. The next year he changed the car with a new rear-engined Lola Mk3-Ford, contesting as a privateer the British Formula Junior Championship. Dennis Taylor finished third at Goodwood in August, second in the September Trophy at Crystal Palace, behind his namesake Trevor Taylor in a factory Lotus 20-Ford, and repeated the feat at Brands Hatch in the October's John Davy Trophy, closely following Mike Parkes' Gemini Mk3-Ford. Racing in the Continent, Dennis Taylor scored a second place in the ADAC-Eifelrennen, held on his beloved Nürburgring Südschleife, behind Joseph Siffert in a Lotus 20-Ford.

In 1962 Taylor progressed to a brand new Lola Mk5-Ford. On the early days of April 1962 he finished fifth in the Spring Cup at Oulton Park, and third at Snetterton in the Vanwall Trophy, supporting event to the Lombank Formula 1 Trophy. One week later he took a remarkable second in the Chichester Cup at Goodwood, behind Peter Arundell in a works Lotus 22-Ford, then he finished twice ninth at Aintree in the BARC 200 and at Silverstone in the Daily Express International Trophy. His next outing of the season was the most prestigious race of the year, the Grand Prix de Monaco Formula Junior, scheduled to be contested on Saturday, 02 June 1962.

On the second lap of the first heat, Dennis Taylor at the wheel of his self-entered Lola Mk5-Ford bearing the race number #128, came out of the Tunnel, at a speed of more than 75 mi/h (121 km/h), parallel with the other #116 Lola driven by New Zealander Tony Shelly. The two cars collided and Taylor's went out of control, skidded right round, hit two trees on the left side and bounced into the barrier. The driver received massive head injuries.

Shelly hit the protective wall but was able to walk back to the pit uninjured. A speedboat took Dennis Taylor across the harbor to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Dennis Taylor crashed fatally just ten days short of his forty-first birthday. This was not his first bad accident, in 1960 he had a dramatic escape at Brends Hatch, when the steering-wheel of his Lola came away in his hands at Druid's corner. The car ploughed into a bank and Taylor suffered non life-threatening injuries as a result of the accident.

The Formula Junior race at the 1962 Grand Prix de Monaco was marred by another huge accident which happened during the second heat, when Britain's Eric Harris in an Alexis Mk4-Ford crashed almost at the same place as Taylor did, being seriously injured. Winner of final race was the Lotus works driver Arundell who at the wheel of his Lotus 22-Ford set a fantastic new lap record of 1min41.7, which proved to be faster than Fangio's 1955 Formula 1 record of 1min42.4, with the Mercedes-Benz W196.

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• Magazine Autosport, issue of 08 June 1962.
• Newspaper Sunday Mirror (London, England, UK), issue of SUnday, 03 June 1962, page 5, article "British Racing Driver Dies In monaco Crash", retrieved by website https://search.findmypast.co.uk/bna/viewarticle?id=bl%2f0000844%2f19620603%2f025 .
• Website Lola Heritage, page http://www.lolaheritage.co.uk/history/types/mk3/mk3.htm .
• Website Lola Heritage, page http://www.lolaheritage.co.uk/history/types/mk5/mk5.htm .
• Website Facebook - The World of Motor Sport, page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1822953027951796/permalink/3514689992111416/ .
• Website Formula 2 Register, by Stefan Örnerdal, page https://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/formula2/1957.htm .
• Website Formula 2 Register, by Stefan Örnerdal, page https://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/formula2/FJ62_E24.htm .
• Website The 500 Owners Association, page http://www.500race.org/Men/Taylor%20Dennis.htm .
• Website 24H-en-Piste, page http://www.24h-en-piste.com/en/AfficherRecherche.php .
• Website Find-A-Grave: Dennis Taylor.
• E-mail by Hans Fohr, dated 16 March 2005.