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Iread with interest your report in the August 2022 issue [Triple Crown tales] about the Henri Pescarolo and Graham Hill victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours 50 years ago. I would like someone to tell me who had been the one who had said that the Triple Crown was winning the Monaco GP, Indy 500 and 24 Hours of Le Mans. Wrong! Unless someone with authority can tell me otherwise, the Triple Crown as far as I know has always been winning the F1 championship, Indy 500 and 24 Hours of Le Mans.

By all means a very, very difficult task to do. Fernando Alonso has tried and sadly did not quite make it, and I think he remains the only active driver that could do it. I laugh about Henri’s comments that Graham at 43 was an old man, but with a

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