MEET SIMON BUTLER: THE RACING REVEREND

Simon Butler is about to start a half-season racing an LMP3 car in Le Mans Cup, which he hopes will lead to competing in next year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. But what makes Butler’s tale more unusual is that he is also a vicar, responsible for 12 parishes in Hampshire.

And the man himself knows his is a rare tale. “There was one guy back in the 1960s, Rupert Jones, he was an ordained vicar and was a works BMC rally driver, and he wrote an interesting book ‘Memoirs of a Motor Sporting Clergyman’,” Butler tells Motorsport News.

“I think there was [also] an army