This October didn't start quite well. Andrea de Cesaris, an inescapable F1 figure, died last night in a motorbike crash in Rome.
Ciao Andrea.
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Andrea de Cesaris dies in a motorbike crash
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Junky
, Oct 05 2014 18:27
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Junky
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:27
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DanardiF1
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:29
RIP Andrea... His nickname takes on a new more sombre meaning now. 
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:29
Oh ****, what a day. Terrible news.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:29
Sad news. What a day!
RIP Andrea
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:29
RIP 
What a marvellous year for F1 with Schmi, Jules and now this.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:30
This is a bad, bad, day...
RIP, deCe.
Forza, in bocca al lupo!
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:33
Wow, this day doesn't get any better, does it?
RIP, Andrea. Thanks for the memories.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:36
What an awful day
RIP Andrea
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:37
Just heard this news, very sad, Andrea was racing in F1 when I first started watching, thanks for the memories.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:38
Oh no
So unfair after having cheated death so many times in F1. RIP.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:40
Horrible F1 driver, but very sad to hear he died in motorbike accident.
Edited by The Kanisteri, 05 October 2014 - 18:40.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:44
Horrible F1 driver, but very sad to hear he died in motorbike accident.
I don't think that's a particularly fair assessment - he was certainly erratic but he calmed down toward the end of his career. In fact, had the Jordan not broken down at Spa in '91 he could well have won it!
Rest in peace Andrea.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:46
Must be fresh news, if you google his name nothing about death appears. What a f*** day today. RIP
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:48
Horrible F1 driver, but very sad to hear he died in motorbike accident.
I wouldn't say horrible.
At the better parts of his career he had some really good races. It was speculated at the time that he might even have won the 1991 Belgian GP if his car had remained healthy.
It wasn't to be.
Rest In Peace, Andrea.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:49
Oh what dreadful news. One of those weird and wonderful racers who made F1 in the 1980s so compelling. And in the 90s, a genuine wise head. There's hope for Pastor yet.
RIP signor De Cesaris
Edited by Risil, 05 October 2014 - 18:53.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:49
At the better parts of his career he had some really good races. It was speculated at the time that he might even have won the 1991 Belgian GP if his car had remained healthy.
It wasn't to be.
Perhaps 1983 too
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:50
Oh man He never set the racing world on fire, but I always had a soft spot for him. RIP
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:52
Forget Hunt's well-known words about De Cesaris. Hunt was irreverent.
RIP Andrea.
Edited by Mekola, 05 October 2014 - 18:52.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:53
He could/should have won early in his career to he got a pole in the Alfa at long beach and would have won monaco had he not run out of fuel in 1982 and he really should have won Spa in 83.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:54
Ough, sad news
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:56
Never heard of him before today and am too young to have seen him in F1 as I only started watching as a kid around 1994, but RIP to the guy, only in his 50s from what I see. A horrible day for the F1 community.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:57
What a foul day for the motor racing family.
de Cesaris would have won twice at Spa with mechanical reliability which says something of his tremendous natural ability, however erratically it surfaced.
de Cesaris would have won twice at Spa with mechanical reliability which says something of his tremendous natural ability, however erratically it surfaced.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 18:57
R.I.P. Andrea... what a terrible day!
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:00
Remember him the right way
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:02
Never heard of him before today and am too young to have seen him in F1 as I only started watching as a kid around 1994, but RIP to the guy, only in his 50s from what I see. A horrible day for the F1 community.
He did several races in 1994, so you just missed him. He was an important part of Jordan's history and had a long career with McLaren, Alfa Romeo, Ligier, Brabham, Tyrrell, Jordan, Minardi, Rial and Sauber.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:04
An excuse to post the beautiful Jordan 191 again! Andrea on one of his better days
Edited by Frood, 05 October 2014 - 19:05.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:07
RIP.
Thanks for the entertaining memories.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:09
Terrible day for motor racing. RIP Andrea.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:15
RIP Andrea.
If there is a god out there somewhere I do hope he gives motorsport a break. Terrible 12 months for F1.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:20
RIP Andrea De Cesaris What a day it's been.
What a day it's been.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:20
shocking times for an f1 fan
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:26
What a horrible day.
RIP Andrea
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:33
As a school boy, working as a gopher with Marlboro Team Tiga, has given me so many great memories. Andrea was a great part of it.
Be it watching him get stressed reading the pit board as he drove past at Brands Hatch, or him adjusting his own rear wing when the mechanics were at lunch at Thruxton. He gave everything to try to get that place up the grid, just the kind of driver you could aspire to be.
He will be missed.
Ciao Andrea
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:36
Motor bikes....
A colorful mechanic at Indy in the years from '35 to '60 who I I knew called them: "Widow makers too often, Angel makers on occasion"
I never had anything with Andrea, and now he is gone it isn't the time to explain anymore.
But he is definitely one who didn't deserves something like this.
Rest in peace Andrea.
Henri
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:39
Been a pretty bad day for motorsport. Though in his early career he probably deserved the "de Crasheris" tag, he did go on to be a very underrated and reliable driver, probably deserved more from his career than what he got.
Ciao Andrea
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:48
RIP Andrea
I always thought he looked like Peter Schilling who sang Major Tom
I always thought he looked like Peter Schilling who sang Major Tom
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:49
Rest well Andrea.
A day in hell for Motorsport. Reminds me of October '11.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:52
Just when I thought today couldn't get any worse
RIP
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 19:59
RIP Andrea. You were the guy who I liked the most in F1 when I first started watching in 81. Yes you were erratic but boy you were fast when you had a good car.
I can't believe I am talking about you in the past tense.
What an absolute bitch of a day
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 20:00
Oh my gosh,this day couldn't get any worse.
RIP Andrea.
