RIP Alain de Cadenet
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His Victory by Design Maserati DVD is one of the few documentaries I’ve watched more than twice. Stylish and engaging chap who had great taste in old motors. Probably the polar opposite of those shouty YouTube Vloggers. RIP.
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Excellent and clearly unscripted!
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Featuring another Legend, the late great Ray Hannah.
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Amazing - I absolutely loved that!
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It’s brilliant isn’t it. That very British amateur but somewhat professional thing that I’m not sure anyone else does in the same way.
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That Le Mans film from1982 is so atmospheric it takes me right back to when I went for the first time in 86.
A few things are the same now. The trees @ Tetre Rouge, the fairground, mergez sausages and even a priest taking a service at that little chapel by the esses on the Sun morning.
But other charms are lost forever. The old dears sitting right at the side of the track in return for letting the Marshal use their bog is hilarious. I can remember all the allotments down by Tetre Rouge long before the MMA Arena complex was built. Health & Safety? What’s that!
No computers for timing, the old pre 87 pits, no big screens and radio LM, so you had no clue about the race and I remember buying a paper on Sun morning to see who had retired in the early hours. The strip shows and freak shows at the fairground with 2 headed animals In tanks like a Damien Hurst exhibit, and only about 1/3 of the starters make it to the end.
I went back 40 years in an instant and it was wonderful ❤
A few things are the same now. The trees @ Tetre Rouge, the fairground, mergez sausages and even a priest taking a service at that little chapel by the esses on the Sun morning.
But other charms are lost forever. The old dears sitting right at the side of the track in return for letting the Marshal use their bog is hilarious. I can remember all the allotments down by Tetre Rouge long before the MMA Arena complex was built. Health & Safety? What’s that!
No computers for timing, the old pre 87 pits, no big screens and radio LM, so you had no clue about the race and I remember buying a paper on Sun morning to see who had retired in the early hours. The strip shows and freak shows at the fairground with 2 headed animals In tanks like a Damien Hurst exhibit, and only about 1/3 of the starters make it to the end.
I went back 40 years in an instant and it was wonderful ❤
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