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In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.
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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
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To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
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Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
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