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NIGEL ROEBUCK’S FORMULA ONE HEROES

says Frank Williams, “I have to be careful not to make it sound like a eulogy. He viewed almost everything with an amused eye – he was the life and soul of dinner parties, because he could sit with complete strangers, and talk to them about anything. In those days I took to travelling with books of poetry, to be ready for him – but even so, he could always out quote me, which maddened me!

“He had become an extremely good driver, getting better all the time, but as well as that was a totally loveable character: funny, charming, loyal. People

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