Lives in New South Wales, Australia, but still has links and a farm in South Africa. Started off as an engineer and motorcyclist before becoming a fine driver in sports and touring cars. His racing career was ended by a huge F1 crash and the deaths, shortly after, of McLaren and Courage. He then ran a performance company and a package manufacturing business. He emigrated to Australia in 1987 to set up a manufacturing business and retired in 2005. He has since patented a pool cleaning device, which is now in production and still follows the sport and plays tennis. In 2012, he was behind a new crankcase independent two-stroke engine, and Basil has been nominated for engineering excellence for his work towards it. The website for the CITS engine is www.citsengine.com.au. He gave oldracingcars.com an interview, which can be found below.

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Biography last updated 16 Mar 2013