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In the history of motorsport, there are countless fast drivers who had enough talent to get a foot in the door to Formula 1, but were denied their big breakthrough. Australian Vern Schuppan is a prime example of this. After successes in Formula Ford and Formula Atlantic, BRM signed him as junior driver in 1971, but Peter Gethin snatched the F1 cockpit away from him. Schuppan turned to sports cars and the American Formula 1 equivalent, Formula 5000. It was not until 1974 that the man from Down Under made it into Formula 1 with Ensign, money coming from Theodore called Teddy Yip.
Yip had made his fortune with casinos in Macau. His Formula 1 team went by his own first name Theodore. In the 1970s, the Asian characters on the Ensign rear wing looked quite exotic and people wondered which of his many companies Teddy Yip was promoting with them. Formula 1 was a toy store for the billionaire. Vern Schuppan only saw the chequered flag once at the Belgian GP in 1974. At his last appearance, the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, a gearbox failure led to his retirement. In 1983, Schuppan proved with his Le Mans victory for Porsche that he had not made it to F1 just by chance.