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Old 3 Aug 2015, 12:30 (Ref:3563486)   #1
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Mauro Bianchi

Following Jules Bianchi's death, there have been umpteen potted biographies appearing in articles everywhere claiming that his grandfather Mauro was three times world GT champion. But that cannot be so, as in the 1960's there was no drivers' GT championship. Everywhere that states this piece of misinformation quotes no source. It was in Jules Bianchi's wikipedia article, but has since been corrected. Does anyone know the origin of this myth?
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Old 3 Aug 2015, 20:10 (Ref:3563582)   #2
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17:03, July 18, 2015‎ JeremyDanielBenjamin (talk | contribs)‎ . . (76,301 bytes) (-8)‎ . . (Mauro Bianchi was never GT World Champion, as claimed in this article before my edit. That piece of misinformation has been repeated by many newspapers following Jules Bianchi's death.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php...action=history

Probably slipped into some news article / press release by a mistake and then it just spread.
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Old 5 Aug 2015, 11:42 (Ref:3563929)   #3
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This claim was in the book Alpine & Renault: The Development of the Revolutionary Turbo F1 Car by Roy Smith (2008). I don't know whether this predates the wikipedia article.
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