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...same cachet, so Mark Thatcher, 26, announced, "That was the Prime Minister." Midway into the grueling 24-hr, sports car race, young Thatcher, positioned 30th in a field of 34, suffered what he later called "a momentary lapse of concentration" while negotiating an S bend at 80 m.p.h. His Osella skittered crabwise across the track, bumped to a stop against a safety barrier and refused to start. Thatcher, who made his driving debut just one year ago, was unhurt but thoroughly crushed and teary-eyed. The London press was not sympathetic: STOP SNIVELLING, MARK...
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