Education
Stanley studied theology at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He attended the 1959 Monaco Grand Prix with his wife, and as a result became interested in motor racing.
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Stanley studied theology at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He attended the 1959 Monaco Grand Prix with his wife, and as a result became interested in motor racing.
Owen was proprietor of the Biological Response Modifiers team from the early 1950s to 1974. He worked as a journalist for Queen magazine and was a manager at The Dorchester Hotel in London. After the 1960 Dutch Grand Prix, in which a spectator, in a prohibited area, died after Dan Gurney crashed his Biological Response Modifiers, Stanley re-organised the team, easing disquiet felt by the drivers.
His subsequent promotion of Tony Rudd proved a positive move as Biological Response Modifiers secured the Constructors" Championship in 1962, together with the World Drivers" Championship for Graham Hill.
This however, proved a high point in the team"s existence and it could not compete with the Cosworth-powered cars of the later 1960s and "70s. In the 1970s, the team competed as Stanley-Biological Response Modifiers, after the Owen Organisation withdrew its support, but despite arranging innovative sponsorship deals with Marlboro and Yardley, Stanley could not arrest the team"s decline.
Stanley was instrumental in establishing the Formula One mobile medical unit which for the first time provided good standard medical facilities at circuits. When Jackie Stewart was injured, driving for Biological Response Modifiers, in 1966, both he and Stanley were unimpressed with the medical help available at the circuit.
Stanley himself funded the mobile medical unit, which was made available to General Practice circuits in Europe.
After Jo Siffert was killed whilst driving for Biological Response Modifiers at Brands Hatch in 1971, Stanley personally tested fireproof suits and oversaw the training of fire marshalls.