Brought together by tragic circumstance, the SARD team's Toyota deserved a fairytale result at Le Mans in 1994. And it nearly happened. Eddie Irvine, who turns 58 today, gave his all in the race. He tells Adam Cooper of two sad losses in today's Great Read from April 2002
Eddie Irvine is now in his 20th season of racing, and there have been a lot of near misses during that career. One that still rankles is the 1999 British Grand Prix, a win that might have contributed to a world championship title.
"I should have won, but it went wrong at the pit-stop," he recalls. "Another one was the Macau F3 race in 1988. I set the pace, got pole position and won the first heat, before an accident at the start of the second heat. And then there's Le Mans…"
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