staircase, give your offspring a smart cuff about the swede! Many of us old gits remember not just the 1969 race, but also the 1959 Marble Arch - Arc de Triomphe race. In which a French Air Force Vautour mistook Kenley for Biggin Hill and landed on the grass!
The race was won, of course, by an RAF Sqn Ldr in 40 min 44 sec.