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Fearless Jean Behra

16. Aug 2020 
by Ziv Knoll
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“Jean Behra was one of the greatest fighters I came across,” once said Stirling Moss. “If you passed Castellotti or Musso or Collins or Hawthorn, that was the end of it, but with Jean there was no way you could put him out of your mind – you had to keep your eye on your mirrors, boy!”

Picture above: Jean Behra finished fifth in his Ferrari at the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. The race was won by Swede Jo Bonnier in a BRM.

Moss explains: “He was an incredible tough competitor, you know, and that made him unpopular with some of the drivers, but I thought it was his greatest strength. He was always fair, too – I mean, he wasn’t about to say ‘After you’, but he’d never do a Farina on you!”

Stirling concludes: “Fangio, I believe, said Behra was ‘too brave’, but I’m not sure I’d say too brave – I always liked Jean: he was there to get on with what he was doing, and he did it bloody well…”

Source: Bernard Cahier

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