Alain de Cadenet RIP

[entropy]

Learnt of his passing this morning on RLM though he lost his battle with cancer the weekend past during LM Classic.

A raconteur and quite a character as I remember his media exposure and too young to have witnessed his racing exploits.

http://www.brdc.co.uk/Notice-of-death---Alain-De-C...

RIP De Cad

[moffspeed]

moffspeed said:

Yes, a great character. I am old enough (unfortunately!) to have seen him race in period. I was at Silverstone in 1980 to watch him score a brilliant victory in the WEC 6 hour race with Desiree Wilson as a very able co driver.

The de Cadenet LM car was a very effective tool - the aero apparently being refined during a 200mph midnight test drive on the M4.

If you haven’t seen de Cadenet’s TV feature on the Spitfire it’s worth a YT - sums the man up really…

[williamp]

Rip Alain.

If you havent watched it, and have iplayer this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p05bxkyd/tue...

About le mans in 1981 and his effort

[rev-erend]

That's very sad but he had a great life.

Such a character.

RIP.