I do remember Cyril Posthumus telling me how the half-brother of a well respected driver - killed the previous week - conducted himself in 'The Wheel' those few days later, noisily drunk and to Cyril's mind raucously laughing, joking, and disorderly. But that was how a wartime generation often handled deep personal trauma in those days (the fellow in question had been driving, with his half-brother as passenger, when he made the error and the fatal accident occurred)... No prizes.
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That's eerily like what Johnny Servoz-Gavin wrote about how he dealt with Jo Schlesser's death at Rouen. He had been proposed the Honda RA302 in which Schlesser was killed,but had declined it. In the race iteself, he had a massive accident from which he was lucky to walk away. Servoz was also still reeling from losing his brother-from-another-mother during a Matra Le Mans test the previous year, Roby Weber.
The night after the Rouen race, he went on what he describes in his autobiography as a massive bender, to remind himself he was alive and they weren't.
Edited by FLB, 06 February 2016 - 23:44.
