Tony Worswick: "Your senses really come to live in Formula 1"

It doesn’t matter to Tony Worswick whether he drives around at a dusty rally track or at the fast concrete of a circuit. As soon as he gets into the car and puts his visor down, it’s all about one thing: winning. “Second spot doesn’t count for me. My attitude still hasn’t changed at the age of 58,” the multiple BOSS-champion reveals.

It’s Saturday 7 May 2011 and still early in the morning when the big yellow trailer of WE (Worswick Engineering) approaches the paddock of the British circuit Donington Park. The outside of the vehicle has the palmarès of the experienced racing team written on it. ‘The original Ferrari Challenge Champion’ and ‘Formula Renault UK 2006 winner’. But Worswick and his WE team have also enjoyed their fair share of success in the Big Open Single Seaters, as the bus has written ‘Multiple BOSS Champions’ written on it as well.

Former champions
Worswick is – unsurprisingly - a familiar face at the Donington paddock as he returns to the Big Open Single Seaters after several years of absence. He shakes the hand of former BOSS companion Karl-Heinz Becker before the Briton starts to tell about his history in the Formula cars. “I drove a Jordan 194 around the turn of the century, a Formula 1 car from 1994 in which Rubens Barrichello used to race. I dusted off this beautiful car especially for this weekend at Donington.”