Patrick Tambay 1949-2022
Posted: 04 Dec 2022, 13:35
"Autosport or it didn't happen", "Motorsport.com or it didn't happen"... it has yet to make it there, so while part of me is still hoping this is Guy Edwards MkII, L'Équipe says Patrick Tambay has died. The article is in French, but even for those of us who took GCSE French 27 years ago, "la maladie de Parkinson" doesn't need any translation.
Maybe that will change this unusual stat about which dr-baker was being pedantic, given that Tambay's most competitive drives were for Ferrari in 1982-83 and Renault in 1984.
But, of course, nobody cares about teams at the front here and we should instead mourn the death of a driver who scored one DNQ in a moribund Surtees, and had two separate stints at Theodore, the latter of which was in the utterly gopping TY01 and was broken by being called up to Ligier in 1981 to score eight DNFs out of eight when team-mate Jacques Laffite scored two wins in the other car (so I think we know where the team's sole focus was...). And when we have cause to think about Haas, let's not forget the other prominent Haas' less-than-stellar effort that finally sunk Tambay's career alongside Alan Jones' ill-advised comeback, even if the car looked right. With two race winners and one World Champion, it was a bit like Fondmetal Team Malaysia's initial strategy, although Carl Haas' team did score the odd few points here and there.
Maybe that will change this unusual stat about which dr-baker was being pedantic, given that Tambay's most competitive drives were for Ferrari in 1982-83 and Renault in 1984.
But, of course, nobody cares about teams at the front here and we should instead mourn the death of a driver who scored one DNQ in a moribund Surtees, and had two separate stints at Theodore, the latter of which was in the utterly gopping TY01 and was broken by being called up to Ligier in 1981 to score eight DNFs out of eight when team-mate Jacques Laffite scored two wins in the other car (so I think we know where the team's sole focus was...). And when we have cause to think about Haas, let's not forget the other prominent Haas' less-than-stellar effort that finally sunk Tambay's career alongside Alan Jones' ill-advised comeback, even if the car looked right. With two race winners and one World Champion, it was a bit like Fondmetal Team Malaysia's initial strategy, although Carl Haas' team did score the odd few points here and there.
