Sad News Gerry Marshall

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In the Feb issue of Motor Sport they devote a large portion of the magazine to the history of touring car racing, including rating the best tin-top pilots. Gerry was placed right there in the midst of such touring car legends as Peter Brock, Steve Soper, Roberto Ravaglia, Frank Gardner and Klaus Ludwig.  The passing of a racing driver is always a sad occasion but all the more so when it invloves someone as beloved among the fans and his colleagues as Gerry.  RIP
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[Black Granny]

Another legend lost to us.

I remember bits from his interviews being published in various magazines over the years. He posed such great questions such as
" Is a man who leaves a burning car backwards an arsenist"

When asked in one interview as to what was the fastest car he had ever driven, his reply was:
" A hire car"
Who remembers the TV series Battle of the sexes many years back when they pitted him against Davina Galitser (not sure of the spelling). They had them both doing several laps in saloon cars. Gerry spent the first three quarters of the race up the exhaust of Davina's car with the idiot commentator spouting such things as "try as he might he can't find a way past" and Davina's got the better of him" etc etc. Gerry then got bored of this, drove staight past Davinas and pulled out several car lenghts in about a lap to easily win!

As always he was entertaining us1
RIP.