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“Prost broke my nose”

16. May 2020 
by Ziv Knoll
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Belgian François Goldstein was a karting sensation. Indeed, between 1969 and 1975, he became karting World Champion no less than 5 times!

His parents didn’t want him to try his luck in car racing, so we will never know if the man who beat the likes of Peterson, Patrese, Cheever, de Angelis or Rosberg would have made it in Formula 1.

But the duel everyone is still talking about, is the one against Alain Prost. A duel that continued after the race, and was concluded with a fist fight in the paddock.

The French champion has always claimed Goldstein broke his nose, but the Belgian insists to rectify this claim: ” Yes its true, I had a fight with Alain Prost. But what he claims is not the truth. It’s not me who broke his nose, on the contrary… he broke mine!”

“I passed him in the last corner of a race, I forced the passage a little, and I won the event. He was so angry. After the race he came to find me in the paddock and broke my nose. Later, I asked him to rectify the story, but he never did.”

François Goldstein stopped racing karts at the age of 30, and remains a legend in the sport.

 

Source: DR

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