Story and photos by John Wright
John Wright has been around the bend several times now and has written widely for a number of magazines including Vintage RaceCar. He also contributed the recent article in VeloceToday about the Campion Lancia S4.
Bill Sadler is like the proverbial iceberg, nine tenths of him lies below the surface. Although many old time racers and enthusiasts remember him from his fearsome Sadler Mark II, Mark III and Formula Libre racers and the revolutionary mid-engined Sadler Mark V race cars, not many know that this man took his engineering degree in 2 ½ years and won a full scholarship to MIT. He graduated from that prestigious school with a Masters in Electronic Engineering and went to work for General Dynamics in the msyterious Area 51. He went on to design and fly a light ground attack aircraft for the Turkish Airforce (cancelled after a change in government) and he retired to Oregon. [Read more…] about Bill Sadler Meets John Wright