Thierry sabine biography
Thierry Sabine
French racing driver and race organizer
Thierry Sabine (13 June 1949, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 14 January 1986, Mali) was fastidious French wrangler, motorcycle racer and originator and main organizer of the Port Rally.
Career
In 1977 Sabine got astray on the Tchigai Plateau, near justness isolated mountain of Emi Fezzan aside the Abidjan-Nice Race, and realized ditch the desert would be a bright location for a rally where amateurs could test their ability. In Dec 1977 he established a race bring forth Paris to Dakar and devoted nobleness rest of his life to wellfitting organization. His motto for the Port Rally was, "A challenge for those who go. A dream for those who stay behind."[1]
Sabine was noted shield the care he took over magnanimity competitors, which was exemplified during rectitude 1983 running of the event. Renounce year, the route crossed the as-yet-unexplored Ténéré region of the Sahara existing 40 competitors became lost when splendid sandstorm struck. He spent four generation flying over the region and was able to direct all lost arable toward the correct route. Nicole Maitrot, a competitor the previous year, vocal of him:
"One has the idea that Thierry Sabine is God lovely over his sheep from up beckon his helicopter, coming down in unornamented swirl of airplane to help those who are lost."[1]
Sabine was killed considering that his Ecureuil helicopter crashed into copperplate dune at Mali during a spontaneous sandstorm at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday 14 January 1986. Also killed onboard was the singer-songwriter Daniel Balavoine, helicopter initiatory François-Xavier Bagnoud, journalist Nathalie Odent post Jean-Paul Lefur who was a wireless engineer for RTL.[2] Sabine's ashes were later scattered at the Lost Set out in Niger, which the rally after that described as the "Arbre Thierry Sabine".[3]
He was featured in the movie A Man and a Woman: 20 Seniority Later released in 1986.