Ove Andersson: Breakfast with a Friend
At last year's Japanese Grand Prix, Dieter Rencken had a chat over breakfast with long-time friend Ove Andersson, rally legend and former Toyota F1 team boss. It may have been the last interview that Andersson, who was killed in a road accident last week, ever gave, and it is published here for the first time
In 1974, as a bright-eyed and busy-tailed wanna-be rallyist in South Africa, I first set eyes on Ove Andersson.
The Swede, already a legend in international rally circles after winning the previous year's Rallye Monte Carlo, had become a regular visitor to southern Africa after entering the 1971 Total Rally in a Renault 12, with then-wife Liz Nystrom making the trip to co-drive Pat Moss-Carlsson.
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