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David Hunt, brother of James, dies at 55

David Hunt, the brother of 1976 F1 World Champion James Hunt and occasional racer himself, has died at the age of 55. Hunt strived for almost 20 years to resurrect the Lotus F1 team after its collapse in 1994, but ultimately he failed to bring the name back in to F1 under the terms which he originally wanted. The younger brother of James Hunt, David made a fortune in the early 1990s by selling his Amway water filters and marketing company. From 1994 onward Hunt attempted to bring Team Lotus back to F1, even coming close to acquiring the Prost team in 2000/2001 in order to get a position on the F1 grid to resurrect the Lotus name. The Lotus name of a sort returned in 1995 as Pacific Team...
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