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1st October 2009, 21:42 #11Senior Member
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What terribly sad news. Pentti was one of the drivers I grew up watching in the period when I came to love the sport, and his RAC win, so well-deserved after so many years of trying, will always remain a favourite memory.
And so will this — a typically spirited, hard-trying performance in not the best car. Pentti's performance on the 1987 Manx International is, to me, one of those that proves you don't need a lot of power to be spectacular.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZT8FNGIv5c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3lbTdnjrZY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe-7jEf7Xy4


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I think he was smiling because it dawned on him that 2024 really was his last chance to win a championship and he took it.
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