Tag Archives: Patrick Tambay

Let the Moët Fly!
The 1983 British Grand Prix was held at Silverstone on July 16. In qualifying the Ferrari 126C3s of René Arnoux, the only driver to break through 1:10, an average over 150 mph, and Patrick Tambay held the first two positions, followed closely by the Renault RE40 driven by Alain Prost. Prost and Tambay, who had […]

A Bittersweet Victory
Hockenheim, 1982. Patrick Tambay, a very recent addition to the Ferrari team, waves the French tricouleur from the podium but this was a very bittersweet victory. And none of the drivers look really happy: not Tambay, not René Arnoux, the second place driver who drove a Renault RE30, to Tambay’s right, nor Keke Rosberg, who drove a […]