From Today's Scotsman
LEGENDARY racing driver Stirling Moss has confessed that he won one of his most famous races while high on drugs supplied by his great friend and rival, Juan Manuel Fangio.
Sir Stirling revealed that he had taken the pills - most probably Benzedrine or Dexedrine - before setting out on the famous Mille Miglia (thousand miles) rally from Brescia in Italy to Cologne in Germany in 1955.
Not so much "Oot the car, Stirling" as "Oot yer heid, Stirling?"
posted by almax | 3/28/2006 08:46:00 pm
1 Comments:
makwuzere
Fantastic - this is EXACTLY the kind of trivial pedantry which I was hoping for a lot more of on this blog.
I,of course, know bugger all about motor sport, so I readily defer to your greater knowledge, and in particular to your extensive library of sad things to do with racing cars through the ages.
It is, as you so rightly observe, fascinating stuff.
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