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    NIGEL ROEBUCK’S FORMULA ONE HEROES

    Oct 22, 2020 5 minutes
    CLAY REGAZZONI

    BACK IN 1979 WE DIDN’T HAVE...

     post-race press conferences in Formula 1, but sometimes there would be an informal ceremony, and they had one such at Silverstone, where the atmosphere was unusually emotional: Frank Williams was a winner at last, and everyone wanted to share his joy.

    At first, he could barely speak. Then someone gave him a whisky, another a lit cigar, and Frank – a lifelong teetotaller and non-smoker – gamely sipped the one, puffed on the other. “Thank you, thank you so much,” he murmured, and there were tears in his eyes.

    After a few minutes his driver came in, dabbing at his face with a towel, for the afternoon was warm. On the podium, in deference to the team’s Saudi sponsors, he had

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