Not many people remember that Denny almost - repeat almost - tried his hand at rallying in the UK. Immediately after he had won the 1967 World F1 Championship, Barry Gill of The Sun newspaper managed to persuade him to have a go in the RAC rally of that year. After a brisk bargaining session with most of the British 'works' teams, Denny was 'placed' with Standard-Triumph, where he was all set to use a fuel-injected TR5-engined Triumph 2000 saloon.
Although Denny knew nothing about rallying, in the run-up to the event at least he carried out some familiarisation and 'training' at the rough-road circuit at Bagshot. This was the year, incidentally, in which Graham Hill was lined up for a 'works' Ford Lotus-Cortina drive.
Denny turned up at pre-event scrutineering on the day before the event, went amiably through all the formalities, then disappeared home until the start on the following day. That was the event, though, when a rapidly-spreading Foot-and-Mouth disease caused the last-minute cancellation of the event.
Denny never got to go rallying therefore, though he sometimes admitted that he had been looking forward to scrapping with Graham Hill ....