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Former F1 driver Philippe Streiff dies at 67

Just three weeks after the passing of Patrick Tambay, France mourns the loss of another former Grand Prix driver, Philippe Streiff who passed away on Friday at  67. Streiff started 53 Grands Prix between 1984 and 1988, achieving his best result at the 1985 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide where he finished third with Ligier. Unfortunately, Streiff's motorsport career was cut short in 1989 by a horrendous crash in winter testing at Jacarepagua in Brazil, during which his AGS barrel-rolled through the track's run-off area, its roll bar ripped off the chassis, leaving its unfortunate driver critically exposed. A cervical vertebrae fracture and extensive damage to the spinal cord left...
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