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taffyvontrips · 2 years ago

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I’ve been looking for material on Gilles’ Lionel Conacher Award (top Canadian male athlete of the year award, basically) for a while and found this Montreal Gazette article!

#i thought he won it in 1978 which led me astray for a while lol #anyway it was 79 #my comfort year #i love the part where he's like 'the whole of canada? not just québec?'#yes! even teenagers in hope bc canada who never cared much about motorsport to begin with #and young guys in a traveling band in northern alberta more worried about their guitars and gear than race results #they all knew about you gilles #f1 #classic f1 #retro f1 #lionel conacher award #70s #1979 #clipping #montreal gazette #meins

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