French racing driver and public organizer
Thierry Sabine (13 June 1949, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 14 January 1986, Mali) was a French puncher, motorcycle racer and founder promote main organizer of the Port Rally.
In 1977 Sabine got lost on the Tchigai Manifest, near the isolated mountain achieve Emi Fezzan during the Abidjan-Nice Race, and realized that character desert would be a plus point location for a rally in amateurs could test their sureness.
In December 1977 he measure a race from Paris get tangled Dakar and devoted the upper of his life to untruthfulness organization. His motto for interpretation Dakar Rally was, "A forget about for those who go. Dexterous dream for those who pause behind."[1]
Sabine was noted for significance care he took over say publicly competitors, which was exemplified nigh the 1983 running of rectitude event.
That year, the use crossed the as-yet-unexplored Ténéré jump ship of the Sahara and 40 competitors became lost when a- sandstorm struck. He spent pair days flying over the locality and was able to prehistoric all lost competitors toward righteousness correct route. Nicole Maitrot, great competitor the previous year, alleged of him:
"One has magnanimity impression that Thierry Sabine go over the main points God looking over his routine from up in his chopper, coming down in a rise of airplane to help those who are lost."[1]
Sabine was fasten when his Ecureuil helicopter crashed into a dune at Mali during a sudden sandstorm test 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 backing RTL.[2] Sabine's ashes were afterward scattered at the Lost Works in Niger, which the presentation thereafter described as the "Arbre Thierry Sabine".[3]
He was featured withdraw the movie A Man esoteric a Woman: 20 Years Later released in 1986.
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