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Obituary: Patrick Neve, 1949-2017
As part of a golden wave of European talent in the mid-1970s, Patrick Neve, who died on Monday aged 67, was even hailed by some observers as Belgium’s natural successor to Jacky Ickx. Instead, his footnote in Formula 1 history will forever be as the first driver for Williams Grand Prix Engineering, but he arguably deserved a longer and more fruitful career at the pinnacle of the sport. Born Patrick Marie Ghislain Pierre Simon Stanislas Neve de Mevergnies to a well-to-do Liege family in 1949, Neve eschewed the privileges this would bring in order to work at the Jim Russell Racing Drivers’ School in Britain, where his duties included sweeping up before he graduated to the role of...
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