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   Depailler suffered a fatal accident in testing at Hockenheim ten days prior to the 1980 German Grand Prix when a suspension failure pitched his Alfa Romeo into the Armco barrier at the high-speed Ostkurve, inflicting fatal head injuries when the vehicle overturned and vaulted the barrier. The car skidded along the top of the guard rail for ...

2. www.motorsport.com › f1 › newsAugust 1st, 1980: The day we lost Patrick Depailler

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   On August 1 1980, radios announced the sad news of the death of Patrick Depailler. The French Formula 1 driver had crashed heavily at Hockenheim during a private testing session, in a time...

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   Jul 21, 2016 · French F1 driver Patrick Depailler died 30 years ago today, while testing an F1 Alfa Romeo at the Hockenheimring in Germany. Depailler never really fitted the mould for Formula One drivers. Some said he risked too much off the track and ruined what could have been his best season in 1979 by breaking his legs in a hang-gliding accident.

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   Aug 1, 2015 · On August 1 1980, radios announced the sad news of the death of Patrick Depailler. The French Formula 1 driver had crashed heavily at Hockenheim during a private testing session, in a time...

6. www.motorsportmagazine.com › patrick-depailler-2Nigel Roebuck's Legends: Patrick Depailler - Motor Sport Magazine

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   Jul 7, 2014 · Depailler had died almost instantly, within seconds of taking in that something in the front suspension had broken. The Ostkurve was then a top-gear corner, taken flat, and the Alfa never started into it, striking a guardrail head on, then vaulting over.

7. www.nytimes.com › 1980/08/02 › archivesGrand Prix Driver Dies In Crash; Car Is Demolished - The New ...

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   Aug 2, 1980 · HEIDELBERG, West Germany, Aug. 1 (AP) Patrick Depailler, a French auto-racing driver, was killed today when he crashed his Formula One racer during training for the German Grand Prix.

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   How did Patrick Depailler die?

   • Thirty-five years ago today, French Formula 1 driver Patrick Depailler was killed in a testing crash at Hockenheim. Jean-Philippe Vennin reflects. It was a warm day, and most were on the road to the summer holidays. On August 1 1980, radios announced the sad news of the death of Patrick Depailler.

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   Who is Patrick Depailler?

   • Patrick André Eugène Joseph Depailler ( French: [patʁik ɑ̃dʁe øʒɛn ʒozɛf dəpaje]; 9 August 1944 – 1 August 1980) was a racing driver from France. He participated in 95 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 2 July 1972. He also participated in several non-championship Formula One races.

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   How old was Depailler when he died?

   • Depailler was helping to advance this team up the grid when he was killed in a crash at Hockenheim on 1 August 1980, during a private testing session. He was 35 years old at the time. He won two races, secured one pole position, achieved 19 podiums, and scored a total of 141 championship points.

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   Did Patrick Depailler have a Death Wish?

   • “Riding motorbikes without a helmet, that sort of thing. Depailler seemed to need to find risk in everything.” It was true that Patrick was never a man to give a thought to safety in motor racing, but still I couldn’t agree with Hunt’s contention that he had a death wish, and neither did Nick Brittan, his manager for many years.

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   What happened to Depailler in 1979?

   • At the beginning of 1979, things were on the up for Depailler. Ligier’s JS11 dominated the start of the season, winning both South African races (even if the winning car was at the hands of Laffite). But in the middle of the season, Depailler was severely injured in a hang-gliding accident, breaking both his legs.

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   What happened to Depailler's Tyrrell?

   • When Depailler’s Tyrrell won at Monaco in 1978, it was one of the days everyone in the paddock was happy. So many times before his fingertips had been on the hem of victory, but always it had slipped away. At the end of that season he left for Ligier, and with sorrow, for Tyrrell was truly like family by now. But the Ligier proved more competitive.

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9. www.autosport.com › f1 › newsPatrick Depailler remembered - Autosport

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   He was killed on August 1, a date already scarred in my memory by the death, in 1959, of Jean Behra, whom I worshipped as a kid. Patrick, I had discovered in conversation a few weeks earlier,...