Hangover Cures - Duncan Hamilton

This story came from his obituary in The Times. So it must be true!

Duncan Hamilton and his co-driver, Tony Rolt, were entered at Le Mans in the 24 hour race in 1953. As was typical in those days, on the Friday at scrutineering the C-Type Jaguar was thrown out by the French. So that evening the two drivers decided to drown their sorrows in a monumental way!

But Jaguar had other ideas and their lawyers worked overnight and got the cars reinstated only to find in the morning that they had two very hung-over and totally useless drivers. All remedies failed. So finally as a last resort they called for two glasses of the finest Cognac.

The rest as they say is history. Two other Jaguars came second and fourth!