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  1. classic308

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    #1 classic308, Apr 25, 2011
    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jVeKuDlKXw&feature=related[/ame]

    10 years ago today we lost Michele in that terrible testing accident....always liked him...
     
  2. TifosiUSA

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    #2 TifosiUSA, Apr 25, 2011
    RIP
     
  3. GTE

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    #3 GTE, Apr 25, 2011
    10 years ago already?

    RIP
     
  4. BartonWorkman

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    #4 BartonWorkman, Apr 26, 2011
    One of the true gentleman racers of our time.

    He is still very much missed at Audi and they saluted
    him by putting a graphic of his helmet on the rear
    wings of the R18s at the Le Mans test.

    BHW
     
  5. tifosi12

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    #5 tifosi12, Apr 26, 2011
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  6. Senna1994

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    #6 Senna1994, Apr 26, 2011
    He was so smooth, his gearchanges could be heard. A very gentleman as others have said.
     
  7. Whisky

    Whisky Three Time F1 World Champ
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    #7 Whisky, Apr 26, 2011
    I remember a story when he forst signed with Ferrari:
    He was tire testing, so he pulls in, they do a big shell game of swapping the tires around, and put the ones they took off right back on.
    So he goes out and turns some more laps, pulls back in, they ask him how they were different, and he replies 'Are you sure you didn't put the set on that you just took off?'
     
  8. ago car nut

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    #8 ago car nut, Apr 26, 2011
    Remember him at the 86 Detroit GP, I was crew man on a Super Vee (morning race) Alboreto was in the pits watching the Super Vee race, started to rain my driver pitted for rain tires. we were busy with the tires, and Alboreto in his Italian accent told the drivers girlfriend he needed his shield cleaned Sadly she and he is no longer with us.



    Ago
     
  9. Whisky

    Whisky Three Time F1 World Champ
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    #9 Whisky, Apr 26, 2011

    Those were fun times, my friend. I was there every year with full press credentials.
     
  10. TifosiUSA

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    #10 TifosiUSA, Apr 27, 2011
    You're a lucky man, seem to have gotten the opportunity to attend lots of GPs.
     
  11. ag512bbi

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    #11 ag512bbi, May 4, 2011
    Wow, 10 Years???? CRAZY! Time flew by.
     
  12. Scuderia-F1

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    #12 Scuderia-F1, May 5, 2011
    A great man & driver!
    Only time I got to see him was in a ITC (DTM) race in Helsinki (think it was -94), oh boy did he push in that awesome Alfa 155...
     

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