The Cruel Sport: Victory and Death at the 1960 Dutch Grand Prix
It was only the hand of fate that saw Dan Gurney and Petrus Johannes Maria Alders cross paths.
It was only the hand of fate that saw Dan Gurney and Petrus Johannes Maria Alders cross paths.
Every April, the inhabitants of the southern French town of Gonfaron gather to decorate an effigy of a donkey. As the sun sets, the effigy is burned on a bonfire as the townspeople have a party. Perhaps in today’s busy, materialistic world it’s a strange or parochial custom, but its good fun—and a way of…