Nick is from the Ukraine, where he was a truck driver. He was the Russian Army until captured by the Germans. He escaped and joined the French Foreign Leigion, escaped again and joined up with the French in the last war.

In 1948 he came to England and is now working in a garage and driving stock cars for the thrill of it - maybe to forget some of the other times and places where the going was tough and hunger and sudden death never so far away.

From the 1956 World Final programme