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Yes, the man was not Jim Clark, just an enthusiastic amateur enjoying a gipsy racing life with a big brute on his trailer. To become a world champion was not his goal. Something we have not to criticize today in my opinion. Those were the old good days.
Thanks to him, French spectators could see a terrific F5000 on their roads (Hervé Bayard being the only one, there, to do the same in 1972, with his sometimes "DFVised" Surtees TS8).
Also remember that Soukry used the very same car on the British circuits as on the French hills, and one can understand it was not the best way to beat the track record at Brands Hatch.
My old issues of the 'Echappement' magazine have gone and I cannot remember if the Connew was once entered in a French or Swiss hillclimb.
Best regards,
Philippe
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