Peter Lewis, who has died aged 90, was a writer, the Observer's motor
racing correspondent (1954-60), and a soldier who won the military
cross and was mentioned in despatches. His books included the motor-
racing bestseller Alf Francis: Racing Mechanic (1957), about Stirling
Moss's assistant, Dicing with Death (1961) and Motor Racing Through
the Fifties (1992).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/feb/16/obituary-peter-lewis

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