as said in the title...
the same surgeon, Professor Émile Letournel, repaired the badly broken legs of many french F1 drivers
- 1979 Patrick Depailler
- 1980 Jean Pierre Jabouille
- 1982 Didier Pironi
- 1986 Jacques Laffitte
while he did a good job every time it was career ending.
And it carried on with the next to generations.
- 1989 Philippe Streiff on a wheelchair, saved by Letournel once again
On top of that in 1997 Olivier Panis was running second best to the Williams... In Canada he crashes heavily and... breaks his legs. Doctor Letournel to the rescue, please. Damn it !!
...
End story: guess why Prost was sooo prudent unlike Senna - on the rain...?
By a bitting irony Pironi (horribly) broke his legs in 1982 in an accident
... where he hit Prost Renault on torrential rain. Prost saw Pironi's Ferrari cartwheeling 30 ft over his head (no kidding: a carbon copy of Villeneuve's horror - with Prost in place of Jochen Mass) He is still haunted by the sight to this day.
Pironi lost the championship and in 1985 Prost was France first F1 champion. Sigh, the irony is killing me ...
At least french pilots helped Letournel improving medecine.
Curiously enough Alesi and Romain Grosjean escaped that jinx despite all their crashes (LMAO) Then again Letournel is dead of old age - so maybe they are more careful nowadays...
the same surgeon, Professor Émile Letournel, repaired the badly broken legs of many french F1 drivers
- 1979 Patrick Depailler
- 1980 Jean Pierre Jabouille
- 1982 Didier Pironi
- 1986 Jacques Laffitte
while he did a good job every time it was career ending.
And it carried on with the next to generations.
- 1989 Philippe Streiff on a wheelchair, saved by Letournel once again
On top of that in 1997 Olivier Panis was running second best to the Williams... In Canada he crashes heavily and... breaks his legs. Doctor Letournel to the rescue, please. Damn it !!
...
End story: guess why Prost was sooo prudent unlike Senna - on the rain...?
By a bitting irony Pironi (horribly) broke his legs in 1982 in an accident
... where he hit Prost Renault on torrential rain. Prost saw Pironi's Ferrari cartwheeling 30 ft over his head (no kidding: a carbon copy of Villeneuve's horror - with Prost in place of Jochen Mass) He is still haunted by the sight to this day.
Pironi lost the championship and in 1985 Prost was France first F1 champion. Sigh, the irony is killing me ...
At least french pilots helped Letournel improving medecine.
Curiously enough Alesi and Romain Grosjean escaped that jinx despite all their crashes (LMAO) Then again Letournel is dead of old age - so maybe they are more careful nowadays...
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