On 12/5/22 03:11, Mr Gobrien wrote:
Former Formula 1 driver Patrick Tambay has died aged 73.
The Frenchman, whose teams included McLaren, Ferrari and Renault, won 2 grands prix in a career of 114 race starts stretching from 1977 to 1986.
More - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/63851584
Yes, RIP
A lower part of the grid driver for years, until
suddenly "THE CALL" came from a desperate Ferrari
mid way through the sad 1982 year, to race F1 with
their winning Ferrari 126.
He did. He won one F1 race for them that year,
and another for them in 1983.
Like for so many, fortune in getting into the
proper car means so much.
quote from a Facebook group:
Patrick Daniel Charles Maurice Tambay (Paris, June 25, 1949-Cannes,
December 4, 2022).
Photo taken in Fiorano, with the unbeatable Ferrari 126C2 V6 Turbo, the
same super-machine (designed and tuned to devastate the 82 and 83 world championships, but this was impossible to do, if the drivers died for
doing crazy things (Gilles), or if destroying his legs for wanting to
lower the time of a pole-position that he had already secured, and with
an advantage of 29 points in the Championship!! (Didier Pironi). That
week end in Hockenheim, Postlewhaite did not go to the race, and stayed
for lunch with Enzo Ferrari, and when the cameras show the mangled pile
of rubble and Pironi's wounded face, Don Enzo stands up of his chair,
and hugs Postlewhaite, crying, "Harvey, we lost the 1982 World Drivers' Championship with a car with which we It was impossible to lose..."
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