{"product_id":"circuit-de-reims","title":"Circuit de Reims (F)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn July 1, 1956, the famous Gueux-Muizon-Thillois triangle became the intimate tripod of the author's motor racing fantasies. He heard, for the first time on the radio, the roar of Formula 1 cars, the terrifying approach of Fangio, Collins, and Castellotti's Lancia D50s gradually drowning out the staccato voice of the reporter covering the ACF Grand Prix.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn July 3, 1960, the twelve-year-old author found himself in the stands, at the back of the starting grid for the ACF Grand Prix. He was witnessing his first Grand Prix... The \"one minute\" sign was now being passed around the cars. A crescendo of engine noise, a whitish sky, air vibrating above the scorching tarmac, the sublime scent of burning castor oil. A large man, standing in the middle of the track in front of the first cars, waves a French flag and runs off towards the deceleration track. Graham Hill's BRM remains stuck on the outside of the front row. Behind, chaos reigns: Trintignant and Bianchi are among the victims, while Henri Taylor, Flockhart, and Gregory escape unharmed...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome forty years later, the author returned to the same place, finding—in a surreal vision—the stands and grandstands overgrown with vegetation, pathetic vestiges of a bygone glory, standing there, far from everything, like a ghost ship on the shallows of memory. Standing in the middle of the track, level with the starting line, in the low light of the last rays of sunlight caught by the rusted skeleton of the scoreboard, the author thought he saw again in the distance, just above the wheat fields, the two red specks of Phil Hill and Wolfgang von Trips' Dino Ferraris, hurtling down the Soissons road at breakneck speed, like two fighter jets skimming the ground that had broken the sound barrier. At that moment, the desire was born to pay this magnificent circuit the tribute it deserves and to tell its story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFRENCH TEXT\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Motormedia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54048097960263,"sku":"9782726894606","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0902\/2609\/8503\/files\/9782726894606.jpg?v=1780307792","url":"https:\/\/motormedia.co.uk\/products\/circuit-de-reims","provider":"Motormedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}