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Stefan Bellof: Racing's high-wire artist remembered
On the 30th anniversary of his death, Sam Smith remembers Stefan Bellof, World Sportscar champion in 1984. He was the racing driver that could defy the laws of physics, the physiology of reflex and the rules of adhesion. He danced the high-wire of motorsport, but at just 27 years of age, Stefan Bellof could not repel fate. Thirty years on from his death at Eau Rouge it says much for the embers of his white-hot talent that the great and good of motorsport will be thinking of him today as both a fantastic racer, and a fine human being. Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost are rightly set as the benchmark of the mid/late 1980s and early 90s in F1. Yet, how different could the record books look if...
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