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Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez with their wives and parents.

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JOCHEN RINDT and DAN GURNEY at the 1968 DUTCH GRAND PRIX || photo by RAINER SCHLEGELMILCH

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JOHNNY SERVOZ-GAVIN and FRANÇOIS CEVERT at the 1970 12 HOURS OF SEBRING || photo by BERNARD CAHIER

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People do not know how shy I am. I know that I do not show much of myself, I seem to be unable of explaining to others, or even to myself, what I am...

Can you believe this is the 100th post on this blog? Of course, I've reblogged a lot of stuff, especially lately, but this is still quite the impressive feat I feel like. Of course, I couldn't not celebrate it by posting yet another Didier Pironi interview from the depths of Sport-Auto's unarchived issues - this one being issue 234 from July 1981.

This one, entitled "L'appétit de vaincre" (The Appetite to Vanquish), has a bit of everything. It's got funny pictures to show your brainrotted friends. It's got interesting insight into the shitshow that was Ferrari in 1981. It's got sentences that have stuck with me so bad they're on my quote book.

This was written around the time of the 1981 Monaco GP, so you've got quite the precise time frame for it. This also means the reporter gets to gawk a little about the Haribo sponsorship Didier had and the shape it took, which involved throwing candies at kids apparently. They need to be a sponsor in F1 again, nowadays all we get are boring-ass investment firms and computer security bs. where is my funny smurf-shaped candy sponsorship.

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i’m begging for someone to write fanfics or make fanart of these two

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James Hunt in his Wolf Racing overalls in June 1979, shortly after announcing his intention to retire from racing. Photographer unknown

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Luca Montezemolo at Paul Ricard, 1975. Photographer not known

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RICCARDO PATRESE, 1982

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what's wrong with this man😱😱😱

During the Ford Formula, James went through a serious accident, even his car was submerged at the bottom of the lake. However, he started trying to tell a dirty joke when he met someone who tried to save him.......

‘He hit a bump on the edge of the track and that was enough to launch him. His car flew through a Shell advertising hoarding, breaking off a massive great piece of wood that was holding it up, and I thought: “This looks very nasty indeed”.

‘I've never done it before or since, but I got out of my car and went running after him. I found bits of his car all along the way, from both the front and the back, so he'd obviously been cartwheeling along at fantastic speed. Then I found his rollover bar, which he had modified to clear his head because he was taller, so I feared the worst. ‘I got to the edge of the lake and there was nothing to be seen. I looked more closely into the lake and saw his car submerged on the bottom and I thought: “Oh my God!”

‘I was standing there with the water around my ankles getting ready to dive under the car to see if I could get him out. In that split second, about twenty yards away, James rose to the surface and stood up, with the water up to his chest.

‘He looked as if he'd been made up for a horror movie: blood running down one side of his face and mud the other, oil on his nose, reeds in his mouth, water sloshing around in his goggles. I helped him to the shore and got him to lie down. He obviously wasn't quite all there because he started trying to tell me a dirty joke!’.

——James Hunt The biography·2.BOY RACER

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DAMON HILL, 1993

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not that anon but Peter and Douglas Revson were buried alongside eachother right? 🥲

I had no idea of this but omg my heart 🥺 two brothers buried together 💔

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Oh and Douglas Revson (been trying to find out about more obscure people as of recent)

It's so fun learning about obscure drivers; there's so much rich history and interesting stories from those who have driven. The best website for it is the forgotten drivers of F1 website. It's a fantastic record of the many people who are often forgotten. I'm afraid I don't know anything about Douglas Revson either, but I'd love to hear any info you have about him.

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Do you know much about Lucien Bianchi aka Jules' great uncle iirc

I don't know anything about him, but I would love to know anything that you might know about him. I had a quick Google after seeing your ask and I am just 😍

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Wait what was Gilles' mistress' job? Was she an air stewardess or am I mixing her up with someone else.

The lovely @lellalombardiapologist, who has read the book, knows a bit more! I haven't read the Gilles Villeneuve book yet, though I do mean to soon to learn more about him.

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GUNNAR NILSSON at the 1977 MONACO GRAND PRIX || photos by SLIM AARONS

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For Anon, my lovely mutuals have more info! Hope this helps :)

Cazzy, I've always had a doubt: gilles Villeneuve was unfaithful to his wife. It's a rumor that appeared to me. I don't know if it's true or false.

Sorry I'm replying to this a day late! Work has been so busy atm 😵‍💫

Unfortunately, a lot of classic F1 drivers often were unfaithful. Not everyone. But a lot of drivers I have read about had affairs, though as we don't know the dynamic of their relationships with their wives/long-time partners we can't judge fully. I am convinced some drivers had open relationships tbh.

As for Gilles, I believe there were rumours he was having an affair near the end of his life, and I think in David Sedwick's book about Didier Pironi he wrote that Gilles and his wife were heading for a divorce. When I have some more free time I'll see if I can hunt down where the quote was.

So ultimately, I'm not too sure if it's true or not, as I haven't researched it too much, but it wouldn't surprise me. While we love our classic F1 drivers very much, it is also good to remember they are human and all have their flaws as well, and might do things we would disapprove of.

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Cazzy, I've always had a doubt: gilles Villeneuve was unfaithful to his wife. It's a rumor that appeared to me. I don't know if it's true or false.

Sorry I'm replying to this a day late! Work has been so busy atm 😵‍💫

Unfortunately, a lot of classic F1 drivers often were unfaithful. Not everyone. But a lot of drivers I have read about had affairs, though as we don't know the dynamic of their relationships with their wives/long-time partners we can't judge fully. I am convinced some drivers had open relationships tbh.

As for Gilles, I believe there were rumours he was having an affair near the end of his life, and I think in David Sedwick's book about Didier Pironi he wrote that Gilles and his wife were heading for a divorce. When I have some more free time I'll see if I can hunt down where the quote was.

So ultimately, I'm not too sure if it's true or not, as I haven't researched it too much, but it wouldn't surprise me. While we love our classic F1 drivers very much, it is also good to remember they are human and all have their flaws as well, and might do things we would disapprove of.