'The Tears of Montlhéry'

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Mrs A-Laure Le Treguilly (F) was raised in a vintage car environment(click photo to see her first co-driver experience back in 1970). Today she reports about the last day of the circuit:
"The atmosphere of this 'war to end all wars' was one of sadness. The clouds even poured their sympathetic tears Saturday in the morning. The weather was an expression of what we all deeply felt in the depths of hearts. This edition was marked by a very beautiful demonstration of cyclecars, these cars of the Twenties which were born at the same time as the motor-racing track and competed on the banked circuit. Bugatti, Salmson, Amilcar, Bentley and others made the glory of the circuit. The majority of the pilots wanted to pay a last homage to Montlhéry and to taste one last time the happiness to go up as high as possible up the banks. A rare pleasure for a pilot, tinged with a kind of excitement at the time of descent and the admiration of the crowd. (Even) More moving without any doubt was when the pilots waved to the public at the time of their very ..........

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