This weekend's motorsport action features the classic Spa 24 Hours enduro. For our 'Friday Favourite' piece this week, four-time event winner Thierry Tassin talks about his love for Spa. Feature:
The Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is central to the motor racing story of Thierry Tassin. It is where his love affair with the sport started, where he scored the biggest successes of his career with a quartet of victories in the Spa 24 Hours and where he is this weekend in his capacity as one of the sporting directors of the crack WRT Audi team for its assault on the race in which he made his name.
It was at a similar age that Tassin’s passion for motor racing was ignited, fittingly at the 24 Hours, then a touring car race. “That victory in 1983 at such a young age with the Juma BMW was so important in my career,” he explains. “I went from being an unknown to the front pages of the newspapers in Belgium in the space of one weekend. The race got a full page in“I had been doing Formula 2 that year with Onyx, but I had to stop because a sponsor hadn’t paid. The win helped me so much in single-seaters; it allowed me to go back to F2 the following season.
“I hit the barriers at the bottom of the old grandstand there and the car went up in the air. I never wanted to look at the photographs because it was a scary accident.
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