Interview - Michel Lizin, journalist at AUTOhebdo from 1984 to 2017: "From that day on, Waldegård always called me 'My co-driver'"

We're talking about a time that millennials can't possibly know. Our interviewee—who will soon no longer be able to read Tintin—covered the World Rally Championship for your favorite magazine for 45 years! And the adventures he experienced were unimaginable today.

Published 11/02/2026 à 17:20

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Interview – Michel Lizin, journalist at AUTOhebdo from 1984 to 2017: “From that day on, Waldegård always called me ‘My co-driver’”

Photo: Sophie Deneumostier

Michel, were you there since the first issue of AUTO?hebdo ?

No. I started collaborating at AUTOhebdo Two months later. In the spring of 1976, I was going through a period of professional self-doubt. I was 27 years old. Until then, I had been contributing to the magazine Motorsport in Belgium, but it came to an abrupt end. To tell you the truth, I was seriously considering a career in politics by becoming

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