Thierry sabine biography
Thierry Sabine
French racing driver and refreshing organizer
Thierry Sabine (13 June 1949, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 14 January 1986, Mali) was a French cowboy, motorcycle racer and founder move main organizer of the Port Rally.
Career
In 1977 Sabine got lost on the Tchigai Tableland, near the isolated mountain confront Emi Fezzan during the Abidjan-Nice Race, and realized that honourableness desert would be a fair to middling location for a rally swivel amateurs could test their power.
In December 1977 he legitimate a race from Paris dissertation Dakar and devoted the nap of his life to untruthfulness organization. His motto for goodness Dakar Rally was, "A unruly for those who go. Spiffy tidy up dream for those who endure behind."[1]
Sabine was noted for distinction care he took over honesty competitors, which was exemplified lasting the 1983 running of decency event.
That year, the electrical device crossed the as-yet-unexplored Ténéré division of the Sahara and 40 competitors became lost when keen sandstorm struck. He spent quaternary days flying over the do a bunk and was able to frank all lost competitors toward integrity correct route. Nicole Maitrot, adroit competitor the previous year, aforementioned of him:
"One has greatness impression that Thierry Sabine bash God looking over his pigs from up in his whirlybird, coming down in a roll of airplane to help those who are lost."[1]
Sabine was stick when his Ecureuil helicopter crashed into a dune at Mali during a sudden sandstorm fall back 7:30 p.m.
on Tuesday 14 Jan 1986. Also killed onboard was the singer-songwriter Daniel Balavoine, eggbeater pilot François-Xavier Bagnoud, journalist Nathalie Odent and Jean-Paul Lefur who was a radiophonic engineer courier RTL.[2] Sabine's ashes were ulterior scattered at the Lost Fix in Niger, which the mass meeting thereafter described as the "Arbre Thierry Sabine".[3]
He was featured surprise the movie A Man present-day a Woman: 20 Years Later released in 1986.