John Bartlett is best known as a former WSCC

World Sportscar Championship

The World Sportscar Championship was the world series run for sports car racing by the FIA from 1953 to 1992.The championship evolved from a small collection of the most important sportscar, endurance and road racing events in Europe and North America with dozens of gentleman drivers at the grid,...

 racing driver and team owner in the 1980s. He first started racing FF1600 cars (Lotus

Lotus Cars

Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at the former site of RAF Hethel, a World War II airfield in Norfolk. The company designs and builds race and production automobiles of light weight and fine handling characteristics...

 61) in 1979 before moving into sports prototypes (Group C1, C2 & Group 6)

Sports prototype

A sports prototype, also referred to as simply a prototype, is a form of racing car that is used as a top category in sports car racing. These purpose-built racing cars differ from street-legal and production-based racing cars that also compete in sports car racing.Prototype racing cars have...

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In 1983 Bartlett began to establish his name as a sports car driver in the British Thundersports

Thundersports

Thundersports was a variety of sports car racing introduced by John Webb of Brands Hatch fame.Webb saw it as a replacement for the Aurora AFX Formula One championship as a spectacular class that could headline national-level meetings, and a partner for the Thundersaloons series for...

 series and the BRDC Sportscar Championship before moving into the World Championship in 1984 and running his own Group C2 team at Le Mans 24 Hour in 1984, 85 and 86.

John Bartlett raced sports prototype cars throughout most of his career, including Lola (T610), Chevron

Chevron Cars Ltd

Chevron Cars Ltd. is a manufacturer of racing cars, founded by Derek Bennett in 1965. Following Bennett's death in 1978, the firm has remained active in various guises. The original company's designs and name continue to be utilized by Roger Andreason to build replacement parts and continuation...

 (B62), Bardon (DB1), Tiga

Tiga Race Cars

Tiga Race Cars Ltd. was a British auto racing constructor and team. The company was founded in 1974 by two former Formula 1 drivers, Australian Tim Schenken and New Zealander Howden Ganley. The company's name was formed by the first two letters of Tim and Ganley...

, Spice

Spice Engineering

Spice Engineering was a British racing team founded by driver Gordon Spice with his brother Derek Spice in the early 1980s, later becoming a successful sports car constructor in 1986...

 and Porsche

Porsche

Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche SE a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German based holding company with investments in the automotive industry....

 966 (Group C & Group C2) in a career spanning some fourteen years. He also had a brief foray into the IMSA GT Championship

IMSA GT Championship

IMSA GT was a sports car racing series organized by International Motor Sports Association. Races took place primarily in the United States and occasionally in Canada.-History:...

 in the US racing a Spice and at the Snetterton

Snetterton

Snetterton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located some north-east of the town of Thetford and south-west of the city of Norwich....

 Willhire 24 Hours in 1991 winning class A driving a Ford Sierra RS Cosworth

Ford Sierra RS Cosworth

The Ford Sierra RS Cosworth was a high-performance version of the Ford Sierra. It was the result of a Ford Motorsport project with the purpose of producing an outright winner for Group A racing in Europe.- Development :...

 with Dave Mercer.

In his final season in 1993 Bartlett raced the Lola T89 Buick Indy car for the Star Union Team in the German Interserie

Interserie

Interserie is the name of a European-based motorsport series started in 1970 that allows for a wide variety of racing cars from various eras and series to compete with less limited rules than in other series....

 championship.

John Bartlett now Managing Director of Maidstone Scuba School, is a Master Instructor

Master Instructor

A Master Instructor in scuba diving is one of the highest levels of professional training in North American based diver training organizations, usually only one step below Course Director for the Instructor Development Course ....

 training SCUBA

Scuba

Scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. It may also refer to:* Scuba diving, the use of a self-contained breathing set to stay underwater for periods of time* Scuba set, the equipment used to do scuba diving...

divers. He has recently completed his first novel Chequered Justice(ISBN Number: 978184624524-4), published by Book Guild, a legal thriller that alternates between the race track and the British justice system.