Behra, Jean

[TimD]

No real reason for this post, except I was looking at an old magazine article by Nigel Roebuck on his hero, and I found a passage that I thought was too good not to share.

Someone once asked Jean Behra how he kept his spirits up when mechanical failure kept robbing him of races.

He replied, "When I am frustrated, I get out my passport, and I look at the visas and remember all the wonderful places racing has taken me to.

...Then I look at the front of the passport, and there it says, for all to see, Jean Behra, citizen of France. Occupation: Racing Driver. And then I remember how fortunate I am to have been allowed this life."


What a wonderful philosophy.