UK: MOTOR RACING - World Touring Car champion Andy Priaulx unveils Guernsey postage stamps in his honour

Record ID: 721274

  • Title: UK: MOTOR RACING - World Touring Car champion Andy Priaulx unveils Guernsey postage stamps in his honour
  • Date: 18th January 2008
  • Summary: LONDON, UK (JANUARY 16, 2008) (REUTERS) (Soundbite) (English) PRIAULX TALKING ABOUT HIS GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MOTOR SPORT: "I think (my greatest achievement in motor sport is) making it as a world champion as it's so difficult to get through - not necessarily from a performance point of view but just the whole challenge of funding, funding your career, which is something you have to do as a driver. And you have to fund your career originally to give you the ability to get the experience to go through as a professional driver - and I think that was my toughest challenge. But it seems every year it gets tougher, actually, because everybody's focussing on me, everybody wants to try and beat me, and with World Touring Cars it's just so close you can't relax."
  • Embargoed: 2nd February 2008 12:00
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  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVAYAUP1C1BUOJTCNF0R0JONE2G
  • Story Text: Three-times world touring car champion Andy Priaulx has been honoured on a set of postage stamps issued by the Channel Island of Guernsey where he was born.
    Guernsey Post issues on Friday (January 18) three new stamps featuring the 33-year-old British driver in the three BMW cars he drove to his successive world titles in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

    "It's a great honour," Priaulx said at the stamp launch.
    "It's something very special. I think it's a way the island can celebrate my success."
    Priaulx said he planned to contest the world title for at least the next five years.
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