Author Topic: RIP Jean-Pierre Beltoise.  (Read 2561 times)

Offline Pilgrim

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RIP Jean-Pierre Beltoise.
« on: January 05, 2015, 08:25:53 pm »
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117273

Another old-timer has left us.

RIP.

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Re: RIP Jean-Pierre Beltoise.
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2015, 09:32:20 pm »
I can remember well being ten years old, and watching his finest hour, the 1972 Monaco GP on ABC's Wide World of Sports.  A terrific racer, and by all account's a fine man.  I hope he is sharing a good bottle of wine, and some laughs with his brother in-law, Francois.
Merci JPB, rest in peace.
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Re: RIP Jean-Pierre Beltoise.
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2015, 07:30:39 pm »
 :'(
"Those were the days my friends. We thought they'd never end..."

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