Sorry to hear, via Joe Saward's blog, that Nigel Roebuck, Motor Sport's GP Editor and long-time Autosport contributor, is in hospital following heart problems.
Here's to a swift recovery!
Nigel Roebuck - get well soon
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Kpy
, Feb 17 2016 17:01
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Posted 17 February 2016 - 17:21
Wish hima fast and total recover
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D-Type
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Posted 17 February 2016 - 17:41
Get well soon
It may be trite but it says it all
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Posted 17 February 2016 - 18:14
Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery!
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Posted 17 February 2016 - 19:43
Nigel was the main reason I kept reading Autosport for as long as I did. Very best wishes to him for a rapid recovery.
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Posted 17 February 2016 - 21:17
Pleased to read that Nigel is recovering from this setback - and hoping that recovery continues to 'race-ready' condition.
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Posted 17 February 2016 - 21:53
Wishing a speedy recovery!
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Doug Nye
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Posted 17 February 2016 - 21:57
Stop laying around - man up - and get straight back to work.
All expressed with the greatest possible sympathy, of course... (Glad to hear better news today)
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Posted 17 February 2016 - 23:10
All the best for a speedy recovery!
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Posted 18 February 2016 - 03:36
Hope you get well soon, Nigel.
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Posted 18 February 2016 - 04:07
Wishing you a good recovery Nigel!
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Posted 18 February 2016 - 11:24
If you happen to read this, Nigel, I treasure a lengthy letter you wrote in April 1978 in response to my approach. With hindsight, it was that letter and subsequent events during my stay in London that summer which eventually steered me from just following motor sport to actually reporting and writing about it.
Hoping you'll carry on doing the same for a long time to come - get well soon.
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Posted 18 February 2016 - 12:37
This is a bloody crap year, isn't it?
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Posted 18 February 2016 - 19:43
Indeed - and while on this theme, do spare a thought for Alan Henry - who I understand is not very well either.
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Posted 18 February 2016 - 19:45
Indeed - and while on this theme, do spare a thought for Alan Henry - who I understand is not very well either.
DCN
I am very sorry to hear this, and I hope for the recovery of both gentlemen soon.
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Posted 18 February 2016 - 20:46
Adding my voice to the chorus, and my wishes for a speedy recovery to both Nigel and Alan. I read and enjoy you both, and look forward to lots more!
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Posted 18 February 2016 - 22:11
Nigel was the main reason I kept reading Autosport for as long as I did. Very best wishes to him for a rapid recovery.
Same here, Tim - best wishes to Nigel and Alan Henry.
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Posted 19 February 2016 - 14:12
Same as everyone else. These 2 blokes were my introduction to quality Racing journalism
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Posted 19 February 2016 - 14:33
Indeed - and while on this theme, do spare a thought for Alan Henry - who I understand is not very well either.
DCN
How is Pete Lyons doing these days? If he returned to Autosport, I might even start buying it again, just about the best writer they ever had.
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Posted 19 February 2016 - 15:46
I would echo all of the positive sentiments above, with regard to Nigel Roebuck and Alan Henry. In my view our sport has been, and continues to be, blessed with a number of great writers (present company included) without whom it would not be wonderful.
Pete Lyons is doing fine as far as I know. You'll find him here: http://www.petelyons.com . For me, his grand prix reports in Autosport were tremendous. Towards the end of his time at Autosport he bought a motorcycle from me on which he spent the next few months touring Europe before returning to the USA.
Christopher W.
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Posted 19 February 2016 - 18:17
Pete was indeed the best race reporter of his era - and probably the best there's ever been in my view.
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Posted 19 February 2016 - 19:27
Pete was indeed the best race reporter of his era - and probably the best there's ever been in my view.
DCN
I agree. He posted a comment on Jo Saward's blog entry about Nigel, so he is evidently doing just fine.
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Posted 19 February 2016 - 22:10
Yeah but... The times they were writing about, 1971-85, were brilliant. I suspect even AH, NSR and PL would struggle to get too excited about today's fare
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Posted 19 February 2016 - 23:57
Indeed - and while on this theme, do spare a thought for Alan Henry - who I understand is not very well either.
DCN
Mr.Henry has worsened?? When I bought your book I understood he had a chronic disease, but I didn't know he was worse.
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Posted 20 February 2016 - 08:30
I agree about Pete Lyons- nobody has come even close in race reportage. But Nigel is in the top three for sure (thought I'd throw in some driver-speak there).
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Posted 20 February 2016 - 09:28
I agree about Pete Lyons- nobody has come even close in race reportage. But Nigel is in the top three for sure (thought I'd throw in some driver-speak there).
So, "A Podium for Nigel". You wanted driver-speak, you've got it.
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Posted 20 February 2016 - 09:40
Hear, hear. Echoing the sentiments of all those expressed above. All good wishes to AH and NSR
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Posted 20 February 2016 - 09:54
So, "A Podium for Nigel". You wanted driver-speak, you've got it.
Actually, he podiumed.
Also from me, best wishes for a speedy recovery to Messrs Roebuck and Henry. Having been brought up on a diet of Yörn Pugmeister, Heinz Prüller etc. my knowledge of their writings is limited, but I did enjoy their contributions to the Autosport and Autocourse editions on my shelf. Grand Prix level journalism, no doubt.
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Posted 20 February 2016 - 10:05
This is a bloody crap year, isn't it?
The older you get, the more bloody crappier every year gets. As Paul Auster wrote: 'The longer you live, the more you live with the dead as much as you live with the living.' (Quoted from memory, but is from 'The Invisble Man'.)
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Posted 20 February 2016 - 10:51
Actually, he podiumed.
For sure.
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Posted 20 February 2016 - 12:52
Messrs Henry & Roebuck (and Lyons) were the staples of my formative years as an avid reader (along with DSJ) - hoping both gentlemen have a speedy recovery.
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Posted 20 February 2016 - 14:59
It was Nigels Grand Prix reports and column in Autosport that drew me into Formula One in the 80's. The idea of a fellow Mancunian, United supporter and LCCC devotee being a Grand Prix correspondant seemed terribly exoctic to a 13 yr old! Get well soon Nigel.
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Posted 05 March 2016 - 22:22
I so hope he writes a no holes bared book on his views on formula one racing through the years. I get the impression he has some 'things' to say about various people in the sport.
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Posted 06 March 2016 - 08:24
I think "all holes bared" would be much better! Failing that, no holds barred would be just fine!
Apologies, Pete, I couldn't resist; on offence intended. :-)
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Posted 09 March 2016 - 18:48
Today is Nigel Scott Roebuck’s 70th birthday.
Let’s hope he is well enough to celebrate it properly.
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Posted 10 March 2016 - 04:04
Today is Nigel Scott Roebuck’s 70th birthday.
Let’s hope he is well enough to celebrate it properly.
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Posted 10 March 2016 - 21:10
Please add another set of best wishes to those already expressed.
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Posted 04 April 2016 - 08:01
Maurice Hamilton Retweeted Max Scott
Very pleased to say Nigel on road to a full recovery. Saw him last week and you wouldn't have known he had been ill.
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Posted 04 April 2016 - 08:17
That's good news - thanks Sophie.
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Posted 04 April 2016 - 08:37
I'll admit it feels really lovely to bring good news for a change, Tim.
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Posted 04 April 2016 - 13:32
Nigel and his wife Viv attended Alan Henry's Memorial Service last week in company with around a hundred of us and he was remarkably well considering what a desperately close-run thing his encounter had plainly been.The Roebucks are both absolutely brimming with praise for the National Health Service care that plainly saved his life...
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Posted 04 April 2016 - 13:35
Excellent good news!
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Posted 04 April 2016 - 16:54
Very glad to hear that he's recovering. He is my generation's DSJ or Grand Vitesse in terms of the quality and readability of his race reports during his time at AUTOSPORT, and I'm pleased that he should be able to enthuse and charm many other enthusiats with the quality of his work for a good while to come.
