Conduct a few Internet searches on Patrick Tambay. Have a look in some of the many excellent dedicated Grand Prix encyclopedias out there. You will find that, in summing up the career of Frenchman and former Ferrari driver Patrick Tambay, they pretty much all start the same way.
What a thoroughly nice and popular chap he is.
Indeed, those who have been fortunate to meet Tambay would find it hard to disagree.
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