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      05-06-2020, 03:55 AM   #46
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Jacques Laffite I saw as a nearly man in F1.I was present at the '86 BGP at Brands Hatch in Kent, the last official F1 race to be held there.
A pile up at the start saw his Liger forced into an armco and he broke both his legs thus ending his career.A helicopter took him to a nearby hospital and after an hour the race was restarted which was won by Mansell after a titanic battle with teammate Piquet in Williams-Honda.
Even off the track people were crippled from accidents.Frank Williams was paralysed in a car accident in France four months earlier (when he lost control of a rented Citroen and overturned) and the Brands race was the first one he attended since the crash.
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