A 'chance' meeting with Didier Pironi
AUTOSPORT's look back at 1982 in this week's magazine and on the website, led Tony Dodgins to recall meeting Didier Pironi in St Tropez and a series of events in which, as ever with him, truth is stranger than fiction…
The 23rd of this month marks the 25th anniversary of Didier Pironi's death in the Needles Powerboat race off the Isle of Wight coast. That, and the occasion of AUTOSPORT's look back at the amazing 1982 season, brought to mind a memorable 'working' trip.
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