In 2012, he had turned his back on competition, angry with part of the motorsport community who had
"ejected him because of the establishment of scandalous equivalences at the 24 Hours of Le Mans".
A bitter divorce for the quadruple winner of the Le Mans event (1972, 1973, 1974 and 1984) forced, with a heavy heart, to put an end to the adventure of the stable bearing his name and placed in compulsory liquidation.
“I had deduced that they no longer wanted me and that I would never come back there again
.
The epilogue to a long chapter of his life
that began in Sarthe nearly half a century earlier.
Withdrawn in what he likes to call his "
hermitage
", quiet in his green property in Melz sur-Seine (Seine-et-Marne), Henri Pescarolo no longer imagined teasing the accelerator one day, despite his remarkable appearances on circuits as a consultant, at Le Mans in particular.
And yet, “Pesca” will find itself well behind the wheel from this Tuesday, from Rambouillet, until Saturday…
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