A Ferrari Day
In 1979, Peter Windsor was fortunate to spend a day behind the red curtain and travel to a Ferrari test - in the back of Jody Scheckter's Ferrari 400GT, with Gilles Villeneuve in the front seat, if you don't mind. His account of that remarkable day, as it first appeared in Autocar magazine, is probably one of the most famous - and most telling - tales of Villeneuve's character...
Roberto Nosetto's office is Italian-modern. One filing cabinet - black. One desk - no drawers. Carpet - beige. Six hanging pictures - all racing Ferraris, all frameless, all glass covered. And Nosetto himself is Italian chic. Always in green, always with big-cuffed trousers and small-collared shirts.
Jody Scheckter is in baggy corduroys and hand-out Ferrari jacket. About the classiest side of his act is his briefcase, and this he always tells you about. It has these great twin combination locks, with special compartments for all his credit cards - and it has zipped-up pockets in the back. A work of art, Scheckter calls it.
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