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[layabout]

Who (more than just the two "combatants") & what are they doing?

[Gary C]

looks like Francois & JYS are throwing wine glasses at each other. Jean-Pierre Jabouille second from right, too.

[Emery0323]

Francois Cevert and Howden Ganley celebrating after their 2nd place at LeMans in 1972.

This picture is from Jacqueline Cevert-Beltoise's recent book on her brother, correct?

[Gary C]

ah yes, sorry, should have looked closer..........it's obviously Howden now I look.

[RStock]

Standing, with the dark shirt, behind Ganley. Is that Beltoise?

[Emery0323]

ah yes, sorry, should have looked closer..........it's obviously Howden now I look.

His groovy hairstyle and clothes threw you off!

The photo and caption are on page 151 of Jacqueline's book, it's also been excerpted on the motorposts website in a post by Patrick Tambay:

http://motorposts.co...evert-beltoise/

"Sur la photo en haut à gauche : Christina, François, Howden debout, après avoir vidé leurs verres de champagne, see les lancent à travers la table et les rattrapent en vol !

Derrière, debout, Jean-Marie Rivière de l’Alcasar, Jean-Marie Dubois, Fred Chandon assis, François Mazet et Jean-Pierre Jabouille.”

[Google Translate: "Pictured top left: Christina, Francis Howden standing, having emptied their glasses of champagne, see the launch across the table and catch the flight!

Behind, standing, Jean-Marie Rivière of Alcasar, Jean-Marie Dubois, Fred Chandon sitting Mazet François and Jean-Pierre Jabouille."]

Many of the women aren't identified, is Judy Ganley there?

[eldougo]

I reckon that is Judy with her back to the camera centre front.

[Nanni Dietrich]

Standing, with the dark shirt, behind Ganley. Is that Beltoise?

François Mazet.

[BRG]

Does this explain the unfortunate Adrian Sutil incident? Perhaps he is more of a motorsport historian than we thought.

Edited by BRG, 09 July 2013 - 12:07.

[sterling49]

Jabouiile seated at the back ? (sp)

[Michael Ferner]

For a minute or so I wondered what Jochen Mass was doing at this "function", until I read the name François Mazet...

[alfredaustria]

I remember that I saw a photo from Graham Hill and Henri Pescarolo in the same Restaurant. Also throwing wine glasses. Perhaps anyone knows this photo also?

[Emery0323]

I remember that I saw a photo from Graham Hill and Henri Pescarolo in the same Restaurant. Also throwing wine glasses. Perhaps anyone knows this photo also?

On the same page of the book, Jacqueline posts a couple of other pictures from this LeMans '72 victory party that have Graham Hill and Pescarolo in them, but they're not shown playing the glasses-throwing game. She comments that Francois was very good at it, but Graham wasn't ("Mais qu’est-ce qu’on a ri avec Graham Hill qui ne réussissait rien ! Bien sûr François a encore tout gagné !). Maybe there are other photos circulating around.

Edited by Emery0323, 09 July 2013 - 16:28.

[RStock]

François Mazet.

Ah ok. I thought it looked like Beltoise and knew he and Cevert were brother in laws. I thought it might have been him.

Edited by RStock, 09 July 2013 - 16:46.

[D-Type]

Whatever it is they're doing , it's a relief to see they're doing it with empty glasses

Clearly quite a party with champagne bottles and buckets on the table along with glasses of red wine!

I suppose these days they celebrate with a double portion of Willy D---'s pasta mix and fizzy water with their fruit juice

[Emery0323]

Clearly quite a party with champagne bottles and buckets on the table along with glasses of red wine!

When I saw Jacqueline's caption identify one of the attendees as "Fred Chandon" I checked and confirmed that the Chandon is of the Moet & Chandon company.
Obviously nobody was worried about the bill for Champagne !

[Louism]

The picture was taken at the Restaurant des Hunaudières, very famous and in the memory of every single fan of the great race. The Moët & Chandon company used to celebrate the winners in that place.
The Restaurant des Hunaudières is located just before Mulsanne straight first chicane (first third of the famous old straight)...today behind a very high wire fence.

Marie Claude Beaumont is at the far right of the picture sent by layabout.

To understand the game Cevert and Ganley are playing, I give you the English version of the text written by Christophe Gaascht in his book Génissel, le Restaurant des Hunaudières...it will be even better than my explanation. Génissel was the owner of the restaurant :

The whole Team celebrated their victory in style on the side of Les Hunaudières with Jean Marie Dubois from Moët & Chandon. And the champagne from the famous vine yard flowed like water as Maurice Génissel remembers. "we got through one hundred bottles seventy of which were to spray everybody"...
A little spice was added to the Moët & Chandon banquets by a game invented by Jean-Marie Dubois : Le jeu de la Pomponette. Imagine Graham Hill on the evening of the 1972 Le Mans 24 Hours with a glass of champagne on the back of his hand. Drinking it without spilling a drop he began to speak the almost ritual words " I raise my glass to the health of Moët, raise it high and raise it well. Knights, drink, clink glasses, empty the glass without touching it. Send it high, dend it well, Knights of the Pomponette". As soon as he had finished his incantation, Graham threw his glass to Henri Pescarolo who did the same to the englishman.

It was then the turn of Cevert and Ganley to play the game as shown on the picture.

I remember some years ago, a friend of mine was still in contact with Maurice Génissel who was forgotten by all Le Mans actors, except Jacky Ickx. Before Le Mans Legend practises we went to collect him at the retirement home and drove him in the paddocks. He was so happy and met some period drivers, he had a long chat with Phil Hill...I think it was his last appearance at the circuit before he passed away.

Warm Regards
Louis Monnier

Edited by Louism, 10 July 2013 - 11:00.