Editing Mike Hawthorn (section)

==Personal life==
After leaving school in the summer of 1946, Hawthorn started serving his apprenticeship with [[Dennis Brothers|Dennis Bros]] of [[Guildford]] in Surrey. He used his 1939 250cc OHV Triumph to get there each day regularly racing Jack Kinghorn on his [[Triumph Thunderbird]] on the infamous A31 [[Hog's Back]] between Farnham where his father's garage was located and the Guildford A3 factory where they both worked. Hawthorn never married, but fathered a son, Arnaud Michael Delaunay born 1954, with Jacqueline Delaunay, whom he met in Reims after winning the French Grand Prix in 1953. He was engaged at the time of his death to the fashion model Jean Howarth, who later married another racing driver, [[Innes Ireland]], in 1993.<ref name=Nixon>Nixon, C. (1991). ''Mon Ami Mate''. Transport Bookman Publications. 400 pages. {{ISBN|9780851840475}}</ref>