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