Meeting the Stig tomorrow.

[Mr Dave]

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bqf said:

read the book on holiday and he came across as honest, self-critical and like all good racing drivers, highlighted his lack of luck at times!

Condi - Are you sure you're reading the same book?

Just out of school...



Signing his book at le Mans.

Something about this post seems very very weird.

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Welshbeef said:

Suppose it makes sense re driving all those amazing cars why would you want anything else.

But it could be nice to have say a mint condition 205 gti 1.9 or a daytona etc whatever old classic class.

True, although if you think about it, driving fast cars properly on track the way he does is a proper workout. When we're going for a weekend hoon, he's sweating buckets in some prototype sports-racer for lap after lap. Even B-roads will seem dull after that.

I'm not surprised he likes the 456, it's exactly the sort of thing racing drivers have. Look at F1 drivers over the years and it seems that big Mercedes cabriolets and coupes have always been in favour. Even Ayrton Senna had a 560SEC and Jim Clark, although most readily associated with his yellow Lotus Elan, used to smoke around in a big auto-boxed Ford Galaxie 500, as did Colin Chapman.

What surprises me is the fact he doesn't have a 456, but then again I suspect, reading his book, that unlike the image many have of motor racing, he's not actually that well-off.