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Club Arnage => General Discussion => Topic started by: alibongo on May 28, 2007, 05:52:28 pm

Title: Henri Pescarolo
Post by: alibongo on May 28, 2007, 05:52:28 pm
Watched a really interesting program On motors tv today about HP, he's had quite a career, struck me as being a very nice guy, drove with Graham Hill at L/M, never got the right drive for F1 but did well in F2, think he said he had done the Dakar ralye 19 times once in a land rover too!
Title: Re: Henri Pescarolo
Post by: Lazy B'stard on May 29, 2007, 02:32:48 pm
Thats the funny french bloke who hassled me for a photo at Donnington! :-):-):-)
Seriously- I can see why the french adore him- super friendly and very down to earth. Just wish the ACO would give his cars a fair run against those smelly oil burners.
Title: Re: Henri Pescarolo
Post by: Piglet on May 29, 2007, 02:43:31 pm
Quote from: sconefinger on May 29, 2007, 02:32:48 pm
Thats the funny french bloke who hassled me for a photo at Donnington! :-):-):-)
Seriously- I can see why the french adore him- super friendly and very down to earth. Just wish the ACO would give his cars a fair run against those smelly oil burners.

I'll  post this now before KK does  ;) 

Longish story but the condensed version...I'm well known for my inability to recognise those that I should really know...

Some years ago when we were running the old Coys Festival at Silverstone I was manning the speed gun in the pit lane, there was only an advisory limit so it was just a case of being there to try to slow folks down a little (Wizzo did 128kph one year!).

So...it's a beautiful day, I'm leaning on the rail waving the gun around when some french chap with a beard wanders over to chat to me, we talk for a while, he's a lovely man, interested in what I'm doing etc. etc. 

The session finishes and it's time for me to go and do something else, as I leave him a chap comes up with a book for the nice man to sign, I wander into the pit office saying "should I know him" at which point everyone else in the place falls apart laughing - it is of course the great Henri and I had no idea! 

He really was a very nice man! 
Title: Re: Henri Pescarolo
Post by: smokie on May 29, 2007, 04:14:35 pm
Saw him working on one of the stands at scrtutineering in the town a year or two ago - he was giving out the little photo books alongside the staff.
Title: Re: Henri Pescarolo
Post by: alibongo on May 29, 2007, 08:02:02 pm
looks like I was not wrong then,