VinnieD
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Francorchamps is both
Oct 22, 2020,13:08 PM
- a small city next to Spa, where you can find one of the nicest race tracks.
- the Ecurie Francorchamps is the racing team of Jacques Swaters, created in 1952. He became the Ferrari importer for Belgium (one of the first ones worldwide, and a good friend of Enzo's). A racer himself, you can think of him as a Belgian Luigi Chinetti. His cars were yellow - giallo fly* probably.
This import operations lives on as the Garage Francorchamps to this day. He has put together a great collection of Ferrari memorabilia
As for the watch, is it a ref. 1999? I had it with a white dial. Transparent caseback and in-house modular chrono (not sure about the specifics). Nice classical layout, but with a date!
*extra brownie points for the purist who knows what "fly" stands for!