Cruel tragedy of Elio de Angelis: an F1 gentleman with the talent to take on Senna

Forty years ago, Italian F1 driver, Elio de Angelis, died in a Marseille hospital following a testing accident at Paul Ricard the previous day. Matt Bishop looks back on one of F1's great might-have-beens: a man of serious ability, extraordinary charm, and uncommon grace, born in Rome to wealthy parents but the very opposite of arrogant. He won only two F1 grands prix, but there are some drivers whose win stats tell only the smallest fraction of their story. De Angelis is one of them.Read more from Matt Bishop: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4noZjPZ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.