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An interesting documentary on an old favourite of mine, John Surtees:
What interested me particularly is that it went into more detail about the problems Surtees had with Ferrari team manager Eugenio Dragoni. Dragoni believed that an Italian team should have Italian drivers, and he was constantly promoting the Bandinis and Scarfiottis while whispering anti-Surtees things in the old man's ear. What I hadn't previously heard was that, at the meeting resulting from the 1966 Le Mans debacle, Dragoni telling him that, if he continued to drive for Ferrari, his safety couldn't be guaranteed. Already, he'd had problems, such as a spanner that had been left lying in the engine. Deliberately? No one knows, but his trust in Ferrari was destroyed, and he was gone.
What interested me particularly is that it went into more detail about the problems Surtees had with Ferrari team manager Eugenio Dragoni. Dragoni believed that an Italian team should have Italian drivers, and he was constantly promoting the Bandinis and Scarfiottis while whispering anti-Surtees things in the old man's ear. What I hadn't previously heard was that, at the meeting resulting from the 1966 Le Mans debacle, Dragoni telling him that, if he continued to drive for Ferrari, his safety couldn't be guaranteed. Already, he'd had problems, such as a spanner that had been left lying in the engine. Deliberately? No one knows, but his trust in Ferrari was destroyed, and he was gone.