Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/21

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Subject: Re: Re[2]: [Leica] OT: Frank Dernie back at Williams
From: Seth Rosner <sethrosner@direcway.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:31:26 -0400
References: <BB419F5C.1853%steve@streetphoto.net>

From: "Steve LeHuray" <steve@streetphoto.net>

> ....yeah, back in those days sportsman racers were the rule, even F1.
>
> sl

Right Steve, rich sportsmen like Juan Manuel Fangio, the Argentine mechanic
who started in racing with a beat-up Chevrolet over mountain passes,
Stirling Moss, Karl Kling, Hermann Lang and John Fitch, all wealthy
gentleman sports guys. ;-)  Of course, outside the Mercedes-Benz racing
team, there were gentleman racers. But Alfred Neubauer and Rudolf Uhlenhaut
were interested in winning and one drove for M-B only if one was a
world-class racer. They did on occasion reserve a seat for a very good but
not world-class driver for reasons of nationality, not wealth.

Seth         365 GTC

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