Pilot as discrete as modest, with the image of a short career in F1 being spread out between 1971 and 1973, having seldom had the honors of the press, and of which nobody any more remembers, or then in an evasive way, Mike Beuttler has the standard profile of deprived of the seventies, semi-pro, semi-Bohemia. The exact antithesis of the civil servant of F1 2005. Died brutally in 1988 at the 48 years age, in San Francisco, this English born in Cairo of a father military, resulting as his wife from the British nobility - it was even kingdom - is indeed forgotten. A man, that which is reproduced on our image, decided to cure it. Attached to the Basque of Beuttler since at the thirteen years age it saw it running with the GP of Belgium 1973, falling almost literally insane in love [ 1 ] with this young runner to the a little sad glance, often elsewhere, this man is called Philippe Vogel. Its goal, one of the directions which it gives to its life: to leave the shade that which was private glory to which it should have claimed, track its route, have collected all testimonys available near the actors of the time in order to write his biography. The business is not simple. The

uages are welded as soon as one evokes Mike Beuttler. Made of an alternation of shade and light, its history deviates towards unavowable ways for the prude Establishment who is the modern automobile sport. We met around the kidneys in Madeira of "the Frigate", Voltaire quay in Paris, Philippe Vogel. From its inexhaustible flow, hardly started by the new beaujolais wine, emerges all the twenty words, a name: Mike Beuttler. All this business left the blue helmet of Jacky Ickx, whose Vogel young person had followed the exploit of Mans in 1969 when the Belgian had regulated with the sprint, in final confusing, growing old Hans Hermann. It was its first automobile shock, symbolized by this helmet. But here that in the bed of Zolder, in 1973, it falls on a type which fits almost the same blue accessory with white facings, a type with the long fine face, enigmatic, which does not laugh much and on March of which four names are registered: Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie-Durlacher. Who are these patrons which does not have the pace of traditional sponsors, which is this pilot, from which comes it? Philippe Vogel is only thirteen years old but already these questions arise with him with the acuity and the impatience of adolescence. He fills the evening of the books of schoolboys to try to answer it, of a wise writing but from where some obsession perspires, already. Arrived at the adulthood, Vogel Marie, makes three children with his wife, takes down a job with Gaz of France, short marries its time. However a man, placed in a dark zone of his brain, takes care that it does not line up completely: Mike Beuttler. While dying of the AIDS in 1988 - three short lines in the newspapers of time - it tightens at Philippe Vogel a spring which awaited only that. Arises which will slacken only when Privé glory will have appeared, the famous book of which it maintained us and of which the structure and documentation are ready. Any more but the writing and the editor do not miss. Vogel seized its telephone and called one by one all speakers who at one time when another played a role in the career of its idol. Much answered him, some received it, such Jane Beuttler, the sister of Mike, become Caroline Clark after it had married Alan Clark, minister in the cabinet of Margaret Thatcher. This lady with blue blood received however Philippe with arm open in his m

him with the acuity and the impatience of adolescence. He fills the evening of the books of schoolboys to try to answer it, of a wise writing but from where some obsession perspires, already. Arrived at the adulthood, Vogel Marie, makes three children with his wife, takes down a job with Gaz of France, short marries its time. However a man, placed in a dark zone of his brain, takes care that it does not line up completely: Mike Beuttler. While dying of the AIDS in 1988 - three short lines in the newspapers of time - it tightens at Philippe Vogel a spring which awaited only that. Arises which will slacken only when Privé glory will have appeared, the famous book of which it maintained us and of which the structure and documentation are ready. Any more but the writing and the editor do not miss. Vogel seized its telephone and called one by one all speakers who at one time when another played a role in the career of its idol. Much answered him, some received it, such Jane Beuttler, the sister of Mike, become Caroline Clark after it had married Alan Clark, minister in the cabinet of Margaret Thatcher. This lady with blue blood received however Philippe with arm open in his manor close to Dover and placed its files at its disposal. "Etes you one of its former boy friends? "asked for to him the sister-in-law of Mike Beuttler, contacted on the telephone. Beuttler was homosexual, evolved/moved in the gay mediums of London where it met Ralph Clarke, one of financial which helped it. Different sexualities always made task in this sport where are set up in symbols of good physical health and morals the female conquests piled up with the back of the trucks saturdays evening of race. One of the reasons for which one does not remember Beuttler, or one prefers of not to remember. Vogel has met also Nicholas Beuttler, brother, which lives in France, on the Riviera, Bob Sparshott, of Space Racing, which prepared March 711, 721 and 731 of Mike, the widow of Alastair Guthrie, one of the financial ones. Jean-Pierre Jarier, who ran with Beuttler, could write a foreword to him. He prepares, at the time of a forthcoming voyage in England, the interviews of David Mordaunt, the last in life of stock-brockers benefactors, of John Woodington, the associate of Bob Sparshott, and hopes for collaborations of Niki Lauda, max Mosley and Robin Herd. We will regularly hold you with the current of the investigatory projections of Philippe Vogel. It seeks an editor. Not obvious to sell of Beuttler in France, even if the vogue of the history favours initiatives of this kind. And yet, which will open Privé glory will have some for its money bus beyond the life and the career of a private pilot of the seventies, it is installation of landscape socioculturel today completed that it acts, which offered to those which could play about it, ventures, shiver, fortune, jet set. And glory, except being private for it.