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Tony Dodgins: Off Line

"I had no interest in fetching in the milk"

Autosport Magazine Jun 6, 2007, 2:45 PM

As invitations go, they don't come much better. Would the British press like to avail themselves of Mike Gascoyne's hospitality on board his Bavaria 50 sailing yacht moored in Cap D'Ail, then head on a few steps to a beachside restaurant, also in the company of Ian Phillips, one of F1's best raconteurs?

Is the Pope catholic? Do bears, etc...?

We arrived to find an amused Mike chortling at the latest issue of an F1 business mag which reckoned he'd gone from hero to total zero: from the tech director everyone in the paddock wanted to hire to the man working pointlessly for the team propping up the grid. Tanned, and having just sailed up from Barcelona with charming partner Sylvie, he didn't look overly bothered.