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[Marcel Schot]

It finally arrived!!!! So if you don't see me around for a while, you know what I'm up to

[Art]

Did your wife have a baby or did you get a new machine? Congratulations which ever it is.

Art

[Marcel Schot]

Art : heheh, no, Mon Ami Mate arrived, the fabulous famous gorgeous book about the lives and times of John Michael Hawthorn (10 April 1929 - 22 January 1959) and Peter John Collins (6 November 1931 - 3 August 1958). I've been looking forward to this book for months and months

The only "problem" is that I'm still consuming Ayrton Senna, As Time Goes By

[Fast One]

I just read Mon Ami Mate last month. After years of wanting it, my better half got it for my Christmas present. What a wonderful book. Enjoy, Marcel, as I know you will. I came out of it envying Don Capps even more for having been around for that era. I grew up thinking that drivers were brave, but this book reminded me in a very real way that they were brave out of measure to drive those tracks in those cars at those speeds. It also reminded me how much more fun racing was foe everyone in the '50's and '60's, and how mcuh commercialism has cost the "sport". Enjoy every moment!

[Dennis David]

That's the kind of book that will really make you misty eyed. Karl should do a similiar book on Ascari and Villoresi. That to was a fabulous friendship and Ascari was a very likable man. A real hero to his fans.

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[Keir]

Should anyone like to buy me a gift for any occasion, "Mon Ami Mate", would fit the bill very nicely.

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"I Was Born Ready"

[ZippyD]

I got your gift right here pal!!!
Hey, you didn't answer my question from the 1st gp topic.

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"Pete, Do you sometimes get tired? Of the driving? Lately I have been getting tired. Very tired."

[Keir]

It was '72. Matra's last season.
We watched as the MS120D went into the garage for the last time.
"The wail was silenced"

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"I Was Born Ready"

[karlcars]

I can see the logic of a book about Ascari and Villoresi but I am determined to do Alberto on his own. The two major books about him have covered both him and his father; Alberto deserves better.
As a Roman friend reminded me, Ascari is Italy's last Formula 1 champion driver! Lots have tried it since but none has succeeded.

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Karl Ludvigsen

[Barry Lake]

Dennis, I realise Karl already has said he wants to do a book on Ascari alone. However, if there was to be a "Mon Ami Mate" book on Ascari and Villoresi it surely also would have to include Eugenio Castellotti. They were a close-knit trio in the mid-1950s.