Image Unavailable, Please Login Depailler's career was cut tragically short when he was killed in a testing accident at Hockenheim in 1980. His death was a shock to the world of motorsport, and he is still remembered today as one of the sport's greatest drivers.
Image Unavailable, Please Login “Patrick Depailler… well, I’ve no doubt that he had a death wish. Very pleasant bloke but I always thought he was barking mad… Look at the way he lived his life. Riding motorbikes without a helmet, that sort of thing. Depailler seemed to need to find risk in everything.” - James Hunt, in an interview from the early 1980s
Many years back I raced against Patrick's son Loic in Canadian Formula Ford. Fast driver but too raw and unpolished to be a champion.
