Jochen Mass competed in his last F1 race on this day – the 1982 French GP. In today's Great Read, the affable German recalls wild nights out with McLaren team-mate James Hunt, winning Le Mans and his tragic collision with Gilles Villeneuve
In the early 1970s, a brilliant young protégé of Ford of Cologne started to attract attention, and was soon being tipped as a future World Champion. But it didn't turn out quite like that for Jochen Mass. His highly successful racing career lasted through three decades; but, out of 105 Grands Prix, his only victory was in the accident-shortened Barcelona race in 1975.
Jochen was never a man to take things too seriously, and his laid-back, good-humoured approach was maybe out of synch with the way motor racing was already going in the '70s. Had he been a Grand Prix driver in the 1930s, or even the '50s, he would have fitted in perfectly. But the speed, and the racing intelligence, was always there...
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