Or Erik Carlsson. Former Saab rally driver, now factory test driver.
In his own admission, "I drive better than I can walk these days, but that isn't saying much".
I saw a TV interview with him, and he appeared barely able focus on keeping a sentence together, then, in full overalls he wobbled and hobbled, arms hung limp by his side, toward the car he was going to be testing. Didn't look good.
Then, the scene cuts to inside the car, and he is sliding a Saab 9-3 arround a track made entirely of ice and loose snow, doing between 50 and 80, on studded snow tyres, arms swinging as he throws the car arround and flicks between gears, while giving a completley different interview. Lucid, alert, talking about the car and his career, while dropping the interview quickly to describe the action of the car in commentary form when it handled differently than expected. He came alive.
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If you had switched off before the incar stuff, you would have felt sad that such a great motorsport icon could have degenerated to the point that his main priority was remembering to breath at the correct time.
Not all apparently doddery old people are like that all the time, some of them have just seen so much of life, that normal mundane existence holds nothing for them, but light their spark and the drop 30 years and become completly different. -- "Sorry Sir, the meatballs are Orf" The poster formerly known as Skodapilot.
