Tributes pour in for British touring car driver
Investigators are ploughing through the wreckage following the crash at 14:30 BST on Sunday
Monday, 31, Mar 2008 09:44
Tributes have been paid to the ex-British Touring Car Championship driver who was killed in yesterday's plane crash in Kent.
David Leslie, 54, was among five people who died when a private jet crashed into a housing estate in Farnborough.
The two pilots and three passengers, on board the business flight from Biggin Hill to France, were killed when the Cessna jet came down and burst into flames just after take-off.
Ex-formula one driver David Brabham, who raced with Leslie, said: "David was a great guy. He was a very good driver and a distinguished gentleman.
"It is the saddest news, both for his family and for the racing community."
Leslie, born in Dumfriesshire, was best known for his nine wins in the British Touring Car Championship for Vauxhall, Honda and Nissan during the Super Tourer era in the 1990s.
He won five Scottish karting titles before switching to car racing with F3 sports cars and Thunder Saloons in the 1980s.
Leslie then raced in British Touring Car Championship for almost a decade.
Colin Hilton, chief executive of the Motor Sports Association, said Mr Lloyd was a successful driver, but "it was as a team manager and owner that Richard really made his name, working with some of the best drivers in the world and winning numerous titles."