Jutta Fauselgrew up behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany, near Berlin, but escaped withher parents in 1961 to settle in West Germany near Stuttgart. Very soon afterarriving, a visit to her first race, the Solitude Grand Prix, left herspellbound. Before long, she realised that she could combine her passion forphotography with motorsport and attempt to make her living. The European F2Championship was where Jutta established herself, usually travelling to theraces in her old VW Beetle, taking her photos, driving home through the night,developing the films and making prints, delivering them to her main magazineclient in Stuttgart, and only then getting some sleep. She covered thechampionship throughout its 18 years, meanwhile broadening out into other areasof racing, above all F1. Nowadays she lives in California with her husband,John Ward, a race engineer, and still supplies publishers with photos from herextensive archive.