Motorsport memorials
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Marcel Visbeen
, Oct 30 2003 17:55
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Posted 17 October 2010 - 19:00
On October 15th, two new memorials to executed resistance fighters and SOE agents were unveiled at the former Buchenwald concentration camp. Among the latter group was Captain Robert Benoist, Bugattiste of note, multiple Grand Prix victor and winner of Le Mans in 1937, who was hanged there in September 1944.
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Posted 18 January 2011 - 09:34
I don,t know if we had this before only found it yesterday.
..Longford Tasmania.
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Edited by eldougo, 18 January 2011 - 09:35.
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Posted 16 April 2012 - 13:53
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On a recent trip to the Fausto Coppi velodrome in Torino found this memorial plaque to Biagio Nazzaro.
At some point he must have raced bikes.
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Posted 14 September 2012 - 06:32
There used to be a memorial (created by Berchtesgaden sculptor Hermann Ebner in the shape of a broken steering wheel) for Ludovico Scarfiotti at Rossfeld-Höhenstrasse near the site where he had his fatal accident. I haven't been able to find it on past visits, and apparently it has been stolen by vandals. A new memorial (a recreation of the original one) is to be unveiled there on September 28th 2013, as has been promised by dentist and classic car enthusiast, Dr. Hans Heil.
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Posted 12 April 2013 - 14:43
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Plaque in Lapalud, France commemorating Emile Levassor's crash in the 1896 Paris-Marseille-Paris race.
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Posted 13 April 2013 - 01:08
Obviously not much civic pride to be found in Lapalud judging by the state of the monument..... Quelle dommage 
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Posted 14 April 2013 - 11:47
Obviously not much civic pride to be found in Lapalud judging by the state of the monument..... Quelle dommage
Its another case like the Seaman and Bordino memorials where road modification contractors had no idea what they were dealing with and removed them.
Luckily in this case The local maire Mr Lambertin rescued it and had it repaired and replaced.
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Posted 14 April 2013 - 19:19
That's good to hear
