He’s a proud dad, Ray Mallock. Just don’t expect him to make a song and dance about it. At 72, the racer turned team owner and preparation specialist has fully earned the right to step back and enjoy his status as one of UK motor sport’s most respected elder statesmen.
Since 2016, the baton to steer the family firm has passed into the assured hands of son Michael, who is leading Ray Mallock Ltd – better known as RML – into rich and increasingly diverse new avenues.
That has allowed Ray to return (with obvious glee) to his roots as a racing driver, most notably in a classic front-engined 1960 Formula Junior built by his late father. Major Arthur Mallock wasn’t one to blow his own trumpet either. It’s just not the family way.
Has that natural tendency towards modesty held Mallock back? Major Arthur pre-dated Colin Chapman and Jack Brabham as a pioneer of making light, strong, beautifully engineered racing cars his loyal and committed customers could believe in.
Yet his company never expanded far beyond the grassroots and its signature U2 and Clubmans racers that remain a beloved staple of the UK national scene today.
Ray too might have gone further than skimming the edges of Formula 1 in his own racing life, had he
