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Funny story from Joe Saward:
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Down in Grove, Frank Williams is reputed to have pulled off a similar stunt when he was signing his contract with BMW in June 1997. Frank has the corner office on the top floor at Grove, with plenty of sky and it was here that Frank signed the contract with the heavy-hitters from Munich. As soon as the deed was done, one of Frank’s mates, Robs Lamplough, a decent racing driver in the late 1960s and early 1970s, who raced non-championship F1 events before retiring to life as a farmer, and an aeroplane collector. Robs’s pride and joy was a World War II Spitfire, which he had bought in Australia and had lovingly restored over many years. At the appointed hour Lamplough took off from his own grass strip on his farm near Hungerford and arrived at full tilt, heading straight for Frank’s office, allowing the team boss to utter the memorable words: ” Achtung Spitfeurer!” to his German guests, as they looked on in horror as the plane passed just over the roof above them.
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