Executives

Martin Leach took passion for racing to exec suite

Martin Leach won two European karting championships, but rheumatoid arthritis cut his racing career short at age 17. "I needed to get a career, so I went to work for Ford," he told Automotive News Europe in 2003.
November 07, 2016 05:00 AM

From the age of 5, when he chose a push car as a birthday present and joyously pedaled it all over a department store, Martin Leach was happiest behind the wheel of an automobile, preferably a very fast one.

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