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Relive DickieMeaden's Nürburgring lap in a Maserati 250F, the ultimate celebration of Fangio’s greatest moment -

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, so we managed to get him to agree to let us use any downtime that they might have while they had the track booked for the record attempt.

‘I remember it was a perfect day: crystal clear, blue sky. I was fully in love with the Nürburgring at that point, having competed in my first two 24-hour races – the first of which, appropriately, was in ain Fangio’s colours. Normally I’d be a bundle of nerves, but when the opportunity arrived there wasn’t time to get nervous. I jumped in – no belts – and they just pushed me across the public car park to bump-start it.

Just before it all gets too wistful, however, Dickie then paints a more prosaic picture that we can all relate to… ‘Driving a 250F is actually a bit like sitting on the toilet, reading a magazine with your legs going numb. Imagine the toilet brush to your right is the gearlever. You feel totally exposed.’‘No, on the… Oh, I see. Right. Sorry. Anything else you remember?’sports cars I’ve driven since, this was a different animal. A proper Grand Prix car, whatever the era, is just on another level. The gearbox was lovely and the steering started to make sense once you adopted the approved elbows-out technique.

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