Template:Did you know nominations/François Guiter

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... that the French state-owned oil company bankrolled the one car built outside the UK or Italy to ever win the Formula One World Championship?

Source: Guiter had already signed a four-year sponsorship agreement with Equipe Matra Sports. [1], pp. 90-91. In 1968, the Tyrrell team recruited Jackie Stewart from BRM. Elf paid his £80,000 salary. [Collings, Timothy (2004). Jackie Stewart: A Restless Life. London: Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-0945-6.], p. 108. Matra remains the only chassis constructor outside the United Kingdom and Italy to win the Formula One constructors' title. [2] [3] The title-winning Renaults of the mid-2000s were built in Enstone, England. [4]

ALT1: ... that with help from a former French secret service agent and underwater filmmaker, seven of the 26 drivers who qualified for Formula One's 1980 South African Grand Prix were French? Source: After the war, Guiter joined the SDECE, France's secret service. [5] After leaving the secret service, Guiter joined the film industry, producing several underwater films with Jacques Cousteau and Haroun Tazieff. [6] Guiter poured "vast sums of petro-francs" into building a French driver pipeline.[7] At the high-water-mark of the French phenomenon, the 1980 South African Grand Prix, seven of the 26 drivers who qualified to start were French. [8]
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