Dodgy Business
On Didier Pironi, St Tropez beachwear, and the black-and-white memories of twenty years ago...
I'm not a hoarder, but F1 generates so much paper that every so often you have to be ruthless. Do you really need it? No. So bag it up, get down to the tip and head for the New Year with an organised office and a clear desk.
This time, I thought, I'd get serious, go right back. But sometimes you just can't bring yourself to drop stuff into the black bag. I was stopped in my tracks by a Roland Ratzenberger CV from 1985, which Roland gave me when I first met him at the Essen Motor Show. Then by a selection of black-and-whites I took of Didier Pironi outside his Leader Offshore power boat premises in '86.
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