THE GRAND PRIX SABOTEURS. This weekend’s Financial Times has a review by James Allen of THE GRAND PRIX SABOTEURS by Joe Saward. Grover Williams, an Englishman, won the first Grand Prix in Monte Carlo in 1929 in a Bugatti. In World War II Williams and Robert Benoist, another Grand Prix driver, became secret agents who sabotaged Nazi infrastructure in Paris. They died in a concentration camp. Allen says, “[Racing drivers] revel in the beauty—and brevity—of a life lived on the limit.”
Now this sounds like a cracking good read.
“Lived on the limit”? On the very edge of heightened experience, perhaps?
[...] driving on the limit Published May 30th, 2007 Formula 1 Annalisa’s Father wrote this post about a book concerning two drivers that sabotaged Jerry’s efforts in Paris during WWII. [...]