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A KNIGHT’S WORK

THE RECENT DEATH of Sir FrankWilliams CBE prompted this column. Although today’s world of F1 Grand Prix competition doesn’t really appeal to me, I was a fan in technologically-simpler times – like in the 1970s when I was working in the UK and having some contact with the British F1 teams.

I enjoyed a few days with the Williams team in 1979 as a relief transporter-driver

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