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, now in production and still follows the sport and plays tennis. He gave oldracingcars.com an interview, which can be found at www.oldracingcars.info/interviews/basil_van_rooyen

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Biography last updated 24 Jan 2010