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Watch: Onboard with Patrick Depailler
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- Last updated: September 19th 2019
Happy-go-lucky Frenchman Patrick Depailler would have been 72 today. If you need a reminder of his flair, car control and fearlessness, go onboard with him at a sodden Montreal in a Tyrrell 008.
For more opposite lock, go onboard around Long Beach.
For more about Depailler, here’s what his Ligier team-mate Jacques Laffite told us about him in 2008: Laffite on Depailler
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