Some of motorsport’s most enduring figures can’t resist the urge to keep racing. Matt James finds out why

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T HE CAR PARK AT OUR HOTEL HAS TAKEN ON THE role of a truck stop. It’s early Monday morning and what would ordinarily be a sleepy nook behind a retail park in southeastern France has become a temporar