Anything to do with cars, motor racing and aviation Baxter was the man !
Baxter was an accomplished
rally driver and competed in the
Monte Carlo Rally twelve times, six of them as a member of the
BMC Works Team. He also competed in numerous
Alpine,
Tulip and
RAC Rallies, which was satirised in the character
Roland Thraxter in
Peter Ustinov's
Grand Prix du Rock. He was a crew member in the
New Zealand Air Race in 1953, in a
British European Airways Vickers Viscount.
Having an authoritative voice, he frequently commentated on motoring and aviation events. He was the BBC's motoring correspondent from 1950 to 1966, including at least twenty
Formula One races, the
Le Mans 24-hour race, and the
Monte Carlo Rally.